The total breeding population of grizzlies in Alberta is less than half of what is needed for the species to maintain a genetically healthy population. TANYA FOUBERT – the Fitzhugh During a recent speaking engagement Dr. Gordon Stenhouse elaborated on the province’s grizzly bear census findings. The independent panel’s (re: Grizzly Status Report) take on [...]
The Bear Guardian crew is composed of six Parks Canada interpreters trained to manage bear jams and provide a personal link to park visitors. They are out on the roads 7 days a week from mid-June until the end of September Parks Canada Website – link here A ‘google alert’ brought me the following link [...]
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 National [...]
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 east [...]
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. Two thousand and [...]
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 [...]
