Study of bear hair will reveal genetic diversity of Yellowstone's grizzlies

Locks of hair from more than 400 grizzly bears are stored at Montana State University, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ranging from pale blond to almost black, the hair is filed in a chest freezer where the temperature is minus-77.8 degrees. Some of t...

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...rn U.S.: Impact to Wildlife and Plants How Many grizzlies in Glacier National Park? Watch a Glacier Surg...at 208-426-2598 or mleu@usgs.gov . How Many grizzlies in Glacier National Park? USGS scientists estima...around Glacier National Park in Montana that's 30 grizzlies for every 386 square miles. This study presents th...

Cornell gets $10 million NSF grant to establish new sustainability institute

...eral interdisciplinary research projects under way, including: Wildlife Corridors for Grizzly Bears Optimizing the design of land corridors for grizzlies that now live in three separate areas in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana to find a viable route while reducing the cost of land acquisition. Biofuel...

Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America

...stem. For example, when humans almost wiped out wolves and grizzly bears in the United States, the species dynamics shifted. The loss of wolves and grizzlies allowed elk populations to soar. Elk, in turn, ate willows, a favorite food of beavers. As a result, along winter elk ranges in Colorado, beaver popul...

Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?

... kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. "We know grizzlies go out on the sea ice to hunt seals, but no one ha...ave been more and more sightings for barren-ground grizzlies on the sea ice in the Arctic from the Beaufort Sea...r on Melville Island raises numerous issues. Could grizzlies move east to one day take up home on Ellesmere Isl...