36—Cleveland Daily Banner—Sunday, January 3, 2016
Grizzly bear
deaths rise as
Yellowstone
population grows
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The
number of grizzly bear deaths or
removals in the Yellowstone
region climbed to an all-time high
in 2015, but biologists say they’re
not worried about the animal’s
long-term survival in the area.
The known or suspected
deaths of 55 bears shouldn’t
interfere with plans to remove the
region’s grizzlies from protection
under the Endangered Species
Act, Frank van Manen, leader of
the Interagency Grizzly Bear
Study Team, said Wednesday.
“This year should be considered within the context of what
we’ve seen in terms of the longterm trend,” van Manen said.
The team of state and federal
scientists and biologists estimates more than 700 grizzlies
live in the Yellowstone region
spanning parts of Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho. That’s up
from about 600 in 2010 and
around 200 in the early 1980s.
Grizzlies first were listed as a
threatened species in 1975. The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has
set a management goal of 674
bears as it moves toward delisting.
One reason for this year’s high
number of deaths: Poor production of wild berries, possibly
because of late high country
frosts and snow, caused bears to
wander far in search of food.
“When you have a year of lower
food availability, bears just tend
to roam around more and be
more vulnerable to various
sources of mortality,” van Manen
said. “They get into trouble more.
We had a lot of conflicts this year
as a result of that.”
Also, the region had only an
average year for another grizzly
food staple — nuts from the
cones of whitebark pine trees.
Grizzlies have proven adaptable,
however, and able to sustain
themselves on a variety of natural food sources in the region,
van Manen said.
Wildlife managers this year
euthanized 24 grizzlies for a var iety of run-ins with people, property or livestock. Zoos took in
four of those bears’ cubs, including two cubs that belonged to a
grizzly sow that killed a hiker in
Yellowstone National Park in
August.
Wildlife managers typically
euthanize problem bears only as
a last resort. More often than
mauling people, such bears
cause issues like killing livestock
and raiding trash facilities.
“But we’re also talking about a
very intelligent animal,” van
Manen said. “Once they learn
how to get access to human food
sources, it becomes a real challenge. And their homing ability is
just tremendous. You can move
them 50 or 100 miles and they
know how to make their way
back pretty quick, in a lot of
cases.”
Other deaths included four
grizzlies hit by vehicles. Another
19 remain under investigation.
Hunters killed many of those
grizzlies, and law enforcement
officers are withholding details
until they sort out what happened, according to van Manen.
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