Welcome to the explorer’s lens… it might not be Tales of the Brass Monkey (remember that show!) yet we manage to visit some cool places from time to time.
Parks Canada recently released it’s second annual report regarding the status of grizzlies within the Mountain National Parks titled Grizzly Bear Monitoring in and around the Mountain National Parks: Mortalities and Bear/Human Encounters 1990-2008. While short on guidance and recommendations the report offers further evidence suggesting the greatest threat to grizzlies within our Mountain [...]
Awhile back we wrote about the improbability of Alberta’s Mountain Parks significantly contributing to the province’s recovery efforts citing among other issues a lack of space for grizzlies to establish themselves once out of the park – link here (Parks Canada to the Rescue). This week the Rocky Mountain Outlook (Young grizzly hazed from [...]
Summer’s official kickoff, the Victoria Day (May) long weekend, signals the arrival of human-grizzly encounter season. While the bears have been out and about since mid-April it’s not until the influx of people enjoying the warmer weather and venturing ‘onto the landscape’ does the seeming inevitable yet mostly preventable bear-human encounter(s) occur.
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We snapped this image (right) in the summer of 2004 in Kananaskis Country during a chance encounter with a grizzly grazing beside the highway near the entrance to Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. The image is especially memorable for us as it is the last time we’ve seen or photographed a grizzly in Alberta. Coincidentally of [...]
How many grizzlies are left in Alberta? This is the question that will be on the minds of many as the conclusion to the province’s grizzly DNA census project is within sight. We may have to wait a little longer given the Ministers untimely announcement that anecdotal evidence may be considered as well. [...]
