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Release Date: May 26, 2016 John returns for an in-depth second look to expose the truths behind the trophy grizzly bear hunt in British Columbia, Canada. Why is there still a hunt? Is it the sport, the public demand, the politics, the science, or the economics? John delves into the issue with some hard-hitting facts that will make you want to get involved in the fight against the grizzly bear hunt by visiting http://www.exposedwithjohnemarriott.com/take-action/
The video on post #37 will not take up much of your day ( a few minutes ) but is very informative. It explains why trophy hunting is not financially of benefit to the location or to the government. The vast majority of people are against it. Trophy hunters are not nature/animal lovers. Trophy hunting is not beneficial to a grizzly population but rather works against population control.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/man-sente...a/39744152
HELENA, Mont. - A magistrate judge has sentenced a Washington state man to six months in prison for shooting and killing a grizzly bear in northwestern Montana last year. Shalako Katzer of Mead and federal prosecutors previously reached a deal that called for a sentence of a year of unsupervised probation in exchange for a guilty plea to unlawful taking of a threatened species. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch was not obligated to follow that recommendation. On Monday, he handed down the six-month prison sentence and ordered Katzer to pay $5,000 in restitution. Prosecutors say Katzer was camping Lincoln County in May 2015 when he and his brother spotted a bear in the campground. Katzer's brother fired a rifle. The bear retreated, and the men followed it. Prosecutors say Katzer fired the fatal shot with a pistol.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/...-species0/
Yellowstone's Grizzly Bears Should Not Be Hunted With nature-loving America watching, this is an opportunity for western states to redeem themselves for wiping out much of our wildlife.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Featuring The Art and Wildlife Photography of Tom Mangelsen:
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On route towards Yellowstone, you might see this sign.
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I firmly hope that the trophy hunting will be definitively banned. This practise weakens the specy - because it concerns, targets, only the dominant animals, males and females in their prime - and destabilizes the remaining animals (teenagers and females, what can they do together without the dominant males ?).
http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts...-pits-now/
Right now, in roadside zoos across the country, dozens of bears are trapped in dungeon-like pits for human amusement. Being confined to pits, like those at the Cherokee Bear Zoo in North Carolina, can cause bears to suffer from a psychological condition known as zoochosis, in which they pace or walk in endless circles out of sheer boredom and deprivation. Living on concrete slabs can cause arthritis, pressure sores, and other painful, debilitating diseases. After PETA submitted a petition in 2012 calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ban bear pits, nearly 9,000 members of the public, including leading bear experts and veterinarians, pledged their support. Yet despite promising action in its March 2016 response to PETA's petition, the USDA continues to allow the Cherokee Bear Zoo and other exhibitors to subject bears to an existence completely at odds with their natural disposition and the Animal Welfare Act. Bears are highly intelligent animals who have the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions. In the wild, they forage for a variety of foods and dig in the soft earth, brush, and leaves—but the concrete pits that the Cherokee bears are forced to call home deprive them of everything that is natural and important to them. Surrounded by four solid walls, they cannot scan the horizon, gain a perspective on their surroundings, or make much use of their acute sense of smell. Please join us in calling on the USDA to do its job and ban bear pits now!  *This image is copyright of its original author
National Wildlife - June - July 2016
Grizzly Rebound In March, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ( FWS ) declared the once-declining grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem recovered and proposed removing it from the federal list of endangered and threatened species. The population has grown to more than 700 bears from 136 when they were classified as threatened in 1975. FWS estimates these grizzlies have also tripled their range. Since 2002, NWF's Wildlife Conflict Resolution Program ( also known as the Adopt a Wildlife Acre Program ) has retired more than a million acres of livestock grazing allotments, most near Yellowstone National Park, reducing conflicts between grizzlies and ranchers. "It has been a success for people and bears," says Program Manager Kit Fischer. Next, NWF will work with wildlife agencies to ensure that management plans support a stable population of grizzlies. More online: http://www.nwf-wcr.org
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmon...-1.3651910
Before he was shot and killed in Edson, Alta., the young male grizzly bear travelled up to 40 kilometres a day looking for the best places to find berries, moose calves and mates, and live out his life. But on May 26, at about the age of about four or five years old, that life came to a sudden end when he was shot and killed in a province where a ban on grizzly bear hunting has been in place for a decade. "It's a tragedy," said Hinton veterinarian and wildlife photographer Gary Gulash, one of the last humans to see the grizzly alive on the side of the highway a few days before his death. "I wish all people could appreciate the wildlife that we still have remaining here in this province." Two men from Edson and Fort McMurray have been charged with unlawful possession of wildlife. One of the men faces additional charges of hunting wildlife during a closed season and providing false information to an officer. Researchers from FRI Research had been tracking the movements of D141, as the bear was known, since he was collared in the spring. Last month, when his collar stopped transmitting information, officials launched a search and found his carcass in the Edson area. "It obviously affects our ability to recover grizzly bears in this province," said research scientist Gord Stenhouse. D141 was one of about 20 bears being tracked by his research team but Stenhouse said a lot of information around his circumstances cannot be shared while the case is before the courts. He said D141 was a young adult bear, who had recently become independent. "At their third year they kind of get kicked out," said Stenhouse. "It's like in humans — we have to go find our own apartment or place to live. In bears, they have to go find their own home range, which is usually outside the mother's home range where they grew up." Gulash came upon D141 grazing on dandelions and vegetation in a ditch by the road south of Hinton, about 59 kilometres northeast of Jasper. "I was impressed this bear was in very good body condition and had a really nice coat," said Gulash. "Some bears are more attractive than others — this was a good-looking bear. He had a really nice pelt and was in prime condition, young and healthy." He said the animal didn't seem too bothered by the presence of the growing crowd of admirers who expressed concern for his wellbeing near the highway. "That was a concern — 'I hope he stays out of trouble,'" said Gulash. "And wouldn't you know it, this is unbelievable that his life would be ended so soon. It's a tragedy." The province designated grizzly bears a threatened species under Alberta's Wildlife Act and hunting was suspended in 2006. The two men will appear in an Edson courtroom on Aug.16th. [email protected] @andreahuncar  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
https://www.facebook.com/HeyBear.GOAL/
“HUNTING THEM IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. WHY WOULD YOU HUNT A GRIZZLY BEAR?” ASKS ZAHN McCLARNON (“MATHIAS” FROM "LONGMIRE") Not only Wyoming’s favorite sheriff, Walt Longmire, but his Cheyenne nemesis, Mathias, opposes the delisting and trophy hunting of grizzly bears in Craig Johnson’s Absaroka County, and in the REAL LIFE but often stranger-than-fiction State of Wyoming under Governor Matt Mead. “Mathias is very protective of his people. He watches over his people and makes sure that things are done right, just like a mother grizzly bear would do who is very protective of her cubs. If you ever mess with a momma grizzly you’ll find out!” says McClarnon, who was raised in Blackfeet country. “I grew up in grizzly country,” he continues, “and so my experiences with bears are extremely personal because I grew up around them.” “Hunting them is absolutely crazy. Why would you hunt a grizzly bear?” McClarnon, a star of Spielberg’s Into the West, asks. (http://www.goaltribal.org/…) You can ask Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) the same thing. Wyoming’s latest slogan is, “We supply the trophies. You make the memories.” Delisting is all trophy hunting, all of the time for Wyoming, and WGFD and its advocates are sure that they will prevail and Yellowstone’s grizzlies will be trophy hunted in 2017. You may comment on Wyoming Game and Fish Commission’s Grizzly Bear Management Regulation (Chapter 67) until June 29 at 5:00pm. Comment and SEND THEM A REAL MESSAGE: please donate to GOAL Tribal Coalition’s “WHY?” billboard campaign to inform the millions of visitors to Greater Yellowstone that a tiny minority of trophy hunters are being giving preference over not only the largest tribal coalition in North America, but 99% of the American people. If you love Yellowstone, you need to keep ESA protections on the grizzly, for if you don’t, 2 MILLION ACRES of Greater Yellowstone will be served up to corporate interests, led by extractive industries. If you doubt it, read the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s small print in its grizzly delisting rule, which states that there are 28 mining claims with operating plans in the in heart of the 77% of grizzly habitat it will actually monitor post-delisting. MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND HAVE YOUR COMMENT REALLY HEARD!https://www.gofundme.com/ProtectSacredGriz# #dontdelistgrizzlies #protectsacredgriz
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news...in-canmore
CANMORE — An adult male grizzly bear was struck and killed by a train within the town of Canmore on the weekend. Around 1:10 a.m. Saturday, a Canadian Pacific freight train hit a grizzly bear on the tracks in the mountain town. It was reported to wildlife officials with the province. “A male grizzly bear was killed,” said Jay Honeyman, human/wildlife conflict specialist with Alberta Environment and Parks. “It’s an unknown bear. “We didn’t know he was around.” The 140-kilogram unmarked grizzly bear is the “first reported and confirmed fatal grizzly strike in Alberta in 2016,” according to Jeremy Berry, a spokesman with CP. Grizzlies in Alberta were listed as threatened in 2010 after it was determined there were only about 700 left in the province, a number that’s currently being updated through various research studies across the province. The low population led to the suspension of the hunt in 2006 and a recovery strategy aimed at reducing conflicts between bears and people. Still, an average of 19 bears have been killed annually since the suspension of the hunt — for a total of 190 grizzly bears in the past decade. Five grizzly bears have already been killed in Alberta this spring, including two in the Bow Valley. On May 20, a motorist hit and killed a grizzly bear cub on the Trans-Canada Highway near Lacs des Arc. “The Bow Valley is the place where we have to get the grizzly bear recovery plan for Alberta right,” said Stephen Legault, a program director with Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. “It’s the most densely populated landscape in North America that still has grizzly bears in it — and, if we don’t get it right here, it’s going to be really hard to get it right everywhere else.” He said there’s also a concern about connectivity for wildlife moving between Banff National Park and Kananaskis. Several black bears have also died on the nearby roadways, including one on the Trans-Canada Highway last Friday and another on Highway 40 in Kananaskis Country earlier in the spring. Two black bears have also been killed on the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff and Yoho national parks, while a third black bear was hit and killed by a train on the railway tracks in Yoho on May 11. Parks Canada has worked with CP Rail on a joint action plan over the past five years to find solutions to wildlife deaths along the railway tracks after concerns were raised that animals were eating spilled grain along the tracks. It included fitting about a dozen grizzly bears each year with a GPS collar to track their movements and learn how they use the railway lines and other areas in the park. Researchers are looking at everything from grain and vegetation along the tracks to design and infrastructure of the railway lines. The project doesn’t include Canmore, but it’s expected the results will be shared widely once the project is completed this fall. In Saturday’s grizzly bear death, Honeyman said there was no evidence of food on the tracks.  *This image is copyright of its original author
http://www.krtv.com/story/32341474/victi...identified
WEST GLACIER - Wildlife officials and law enforcement officers are continuing to search for a bear or bears that attacked and killed a 38 year old West Glacier resident on his bicycle on Wednesday near the town of West Glacier. The attack on the pair of bicyclists took place about a mile up the trail leading to Half Moon Lake, and according to Flathead County Undersheriff Dave Lieb, it was a very sudden attack. The victim has been identified at Brad Treat of West Glacier, a career law enforcement officer with the Flathead National Forest. It appears that Treat and his companion surprised the bear on the trail which may have led to the attack. A press release from Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry says that Treat was "taken off his bike" by the bear, and was pronounced dead on the scene. The second rider was able to escape the area to get help and was not injured or involved in the attack. Authorities are asking visitors and area residents to stay out of the area until the bear in question is captured. Initially, authorities believed it was a grizzly bear that attacked, but now are not certain whether it was a grizzly or a black bear. Undersheriff Lieb said, "At this point and time the Forest Service is closing the entire area, from Desert Mountain to Coram, over to West Glacier, so that area is closed until further notice." The incident is being investigated by the Wildlife Human Attack Response Team of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; the U.S Forest Service; and the Flathead County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Chuck curry says that Treat was an integral member of law enforcement and a friend to all. He says the department's thoughts and prayers are with his family tonight.
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By CHRIS PETERSON Hungry Horse News | 0 comments Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has removed the bear traps and cameras from an area where a man was fatally mauled earlier this week near West Glacier the agency announced Saturday morning, after trapping efforts proved unsuccessful. They also removed remote cameras as well. The preliminary investigation by FWP Wildlife Human Attack Response Team Lead Investigator Brian Sommers has found that Brad Treat, 38, was riding his bicycle Wednesday afternoon at a high rate of speed when he collided with a bear. The bear attacked Treat and killed him. The incident happened in the Green Gate/Half Moon Lakes area of the Flathead National Forest. There are several trails in the region that wind through the trees and marshes. Investigators believe Treat had no time to react or avoid the collision. Treat was an experienced woodsman and law enforcement officer with the Flathead National Forest. A family member was riding behind him at the time of the accident and turned around and went for help. FWP said the investigation is continuing. A roughly 10-square mile area from West Glacier to near the Hungry Horse Reservoir is closed to public entry due to the incident. There is no word at this point when it will reopen. The area Treat was attacked in is a popular hiking, bike riding and horseback riding area. |
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