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Louisa Willcox
Jul 8, 2016
Chuck Jonkel: Pioneer, Rebel, Advocate of Bears and the Wild
On April 12, Dr. Charles Jonkel, a mentor and hero for nature, passed away. Chuck was a pioneering bear biologist who paved the way for...
Louisa Willcox
Jun 23, 2016
Delisting Grizzlies To Save The ESA?
A central argument marshalled to justify stripping federal protections from Yellowstone grizzly bears is this: the Fish and Wildlife...
Louisa Willcox
Jun 9, 2016
Will Lynch Sentence Help Turn Tide for Cabinet Yaak, Northern Rockies Grizzlies?
On May 27, Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch rocked the grizzly bear world in an unprecedented sentencing of a man to six months in federal...
David Mattson
May 26, 2016
Disserving the Public Trust II The ethos of state grizzly bear management
Worldviews Most people are familiar with the term worldview. In academe, scholars such as David Naugle (“Worldview”), Jim Sire (“Naming...
David Mattson
May 19, 2016
Disserving the Public Trust: The despotic future of grizzly bear management
An Introductory Aside on Democracy Francis Fukuyama of Harvard University recently completed a magisterial two-volume review of the...
Louisa Willcox
May 13, 2016
National Park Service Stands Up For Grizzly Bears And Us, Yet Again
On May 10, among the thousands of comments to US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on its proposal to strip Endangered Species Act...
David Mattson
May 5, 2016
The Wonderful Wizard and His Dancing Grizzly Bear Numbers
The Wizard of Oz is a great story full of the classic characters and elements of a good fantasy. A hardy troupe of protagonists, aided by...
Louisa Willcox
Apr 28, 2016
Chauvet vs Cheney: Choices in Our Relationships with Grizzly Bears
Just two weeks ago, the National Academy of Science published a paper confirming the dates of ancient cave bear paintings at Chauvet Pont...
Louisa Willcox
Apr 21, 2016
Cattle in Grizzly Country
Photo of grizzly bear, elk and Ancient White Park cattle, BBar Ranch, MT, by Trina Smith. In the aspens of Alberta’s foothills, Charlie...
David Mattson
Apr 14, 2016
The Grizzly Bear Moth-Eating Jig
Public domain photo by the US Geological Survey Back in 1955, a year after I was born, John Chapman published a paper in the journal...