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Pique newsmagazine: Reading the editorials and articles about Jeanie the bear and the circumstances leading up to her death paints a very disturbing picture (Pique Oct.27). How is it possible that all the restaurants mentioned, which have been in this town for years are incapable of managing their food waste? Let's start with the biggest corporate entity here, Whistler Blackcomb. Two of its restaurants were "broken into" by Jeanie. How do you break into the Roundhouse or the GLC? Buildings with rock and steel cladding, steel fire doors and wire-reinforced glass? You don't. If you leave a door open or have latches a bear can manipulate then the animal will "enter" a building.
LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun: METRO VANCOUVER - Nick Didlick wasn't sure what to expect when he hiked into the thick rainforests of the upper Pitt River Valley and set up a remotely activated video camera on a trail beside a salmon-spawning channel.
The professional photographer and fishing guide recalls returning two weeks later, crouching down and peering at the small image on the camera and realizing right away he had captured something special.
"I looked and said, 'Oh my God, this is a grizzly,'" said Didlick, who first saw what he believed to be grizzly tracks in the valley in 2005. "I guess it wasn't a good place to be alone."
CBS Minnesota : SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - Police say a man has been hospitalized after being mauled by a bear in the southern edge of Superior.
The Duluth News Tribune reports Superior police officers were called to the southern edge of town on a report of a mauling about 8 p.m. Saturday.
Police say the man was with a female hunting partner who had set up over some bait, hoping to take a deer, when the bear appeared. The man tried to chase it off, but the animal turned on him.
Jennifer Miller, The Whistler Question : As if Whistler's resident black bears didn't already have huge challenges ahead this fall, an international media circus last week only served to trivialize the animals' plight and fuel public ignorance.
Reporters from Vancouver, across Canada, into the U.S. and as far away as the U.K. delighted in the story of a bear wandering into Whistler's Fat Tony's Pizza and eating several pies while onlookers shot video and laughed at the scene.
Stephen Hui, The Georgia Straight: Chloe O'Loughlin is welcoming the B.C. Liberal government's "huge announcement" that it plans to legislate a ban on mining and oil and gas development in the Flathead River Valley.
But the Vancouver-based environmentalist cautions that the move is just a "good first step", as more needs to be done to ensure the area in the province's southeastern corner is protected.
The Associated Press: BILLINGS, Mont. - A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a hiker in Yellowstone National Park was killed after DNA evidence linked the animal to the scene of a second hiker's death a month later, a park official said Monday.
The decision to euthanize the 250-pound female bear was meant to protect park visitors and staff, Superintendent Dan Wenk said.
Christopher Poon, the Whistler Questions : After years of actively working towards making Whistler visitors and residents more bear smart, as well as taking steps to make the town more bear proof, this week Whistler was recognized by the provincial government as one of only four "Bear Smart" communities in B.C.
Joining Squamish and Kamloops, the first two communities accepted into the program in 2009, Whistler and Lions Bay received the designation from B.C.'s Minister of Environment Terry Lake on Thursday (Sept. 29).
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press: CALGARY - Some of the world's foremost bear experts are looking at new ways to prevent grizzlies from getting killed along railway tracks inside Banff National Park.
A dozen bears have been killed and a half dozen cubs orphaned in the last decade and experts estimate there are now only between 45 and 60 grizzlies left in the park.
Last year, Alberta reclassified the species as threatened because of rapidly dwindling numbers.
Little Chicago Review : JACKSON - With big game hunting seasons getting into full swing, officials with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Bridger-Teton National Forest are urging hunters in Northwest Wyoming to be "bear aware" and take steps to avoid conflicts with grizzly bears.
Cori Alfreds, The Whistler Question : Local black bear researchers are predicting a wave of increased bear activity in the Village and valley this fall due to the worst berry crop Whistler has seen in almost two decades.
Experts are pleading with locals to be extra careful by safely disposing of garbage, not having bird feeders, keeping dog food inside and keeping areas around the house clean.
KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian : A black bear that came knocking forcefully at Missoula International Airport doors early Wednesday was treed, tranquilized and removed to a more ursine-friendly environment.
"Apparently he was looking to fly south for the winter as opposed to hibernating," airport director Cris Jensen speculated.
Jensen said Wednesday afternoon he learned of the incident via a text message in the middle of the night and hadn't yet heard all the details. As he understood it, a security guard or someone from the custodial staff at the otherwise empty terminal spotted it near the entrance and turned off the automatic doors to prevent easy entry.
Karl Puckett, Great Falls Tribune : A 9-month-old orphaned grizzly that set up a home range on Freezout Lake, feeding on wheat and carp, has been captured and relocated to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where bear managers say it stands a better chance of surviving to adulthood.
Usually, bears are moved after they get in conflicts with people or domestic animals, but this bear, which ran from people and vehicles, wasn't causing trouble, said Mike Madel, a grizzly bear management specialist with Montana Fish, Wildife & Parks.
The Associated Press: MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - State wildlife officials say a 2-year-old male grizzly bear that had been captured after breaking into a bee yard east of Deer Lodge has died of complications from the immobilization medications administered to the bear.
Fish, Wildlife and Parks bear management specialist Jamie Jonkel says the 280-pound bear had broken into a bee yard, protected by an electric fence, multiple times last week. The bear was captured Sunday by the U.S. Wildlife Services and handled by FWP. It died Tuesday.
Jonkel says biologists had planned to relocate the bear to a site in the South Fork of the Flathead River valley.
Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald: For the past three years Bear No. 8's behaviour was becoming increasingly worrisome.
It sprinted after cyclists, charged dog walkers and held a Canadian Pacific train hostage when it stood its ground on a grain car and wouldn't let workers near.
On Monday, the six-year-old male grizzly bear stalked two people in Banff National Park, chasing them up a tree, where they sat in fear and panic for two hours.
Jake Nichols, JH Weekly: Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Bear No. 646 was eventually tracked to a location 1.7 miles southwest of the trapping/mauling site. It was shot dead from a helicopter by U.S. Wildlife Services at 7:15 a.m. on June 19.
After the incident at Kitty Creek, all bear research trapping operations were halted for 50 days until new protocol was established by now-retired IGBST head Chuck Schwartz. Even with the layoff, officials managed to capture a record 95 grizzlies in 2010, 75 of those for bad behavior. In all, 295 grizzly-human conflicts were reported in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), the most since record-keeping began in 1992.
Global BC: BELLA COOLA - Recent flooding along B.C.'s Central Coast has been devastating, destroying homes and roads, but there are much wider implications that are only now becoming clearer.
The floods wiped out much of the salmon spawn in Bella Coola. It is the best source of food for local grizzly bears trying to fatten up for the winter.
Ella Davies, BBC News: The bear "born on the internet" is believed to have been shot and killed by a hunter in Minnesota, US.
CTV Winnipeg : Two orphaned bear cubs have been seen on Highway 7, just outside of Winnipeg.
"There is still food here so it makes me worried that...something's happened to them," said Sally Hull, the woman who spotted the bears.
Just metres away from where she left a bag of dog food, Hull watches for the bears she saw earlier this week.
The Digital Journal : Yosemite National Park - A video of a pair of adorable bear cubs who delighted visitors at Yosemite National Park, where they were filmed wrestling in the middle of the road, has gone viral receiving hundreds of thousands of views in just a few days.According to the the video description the mother bear and her cubs were filmed by park visitors who were returning from a day hike at Hetch Hetchy, a popular destination for hikers in the California national forest.
Jodi Hausen, Chronicle Staff Writer: Gallatin County District Judge Mike Salvagni on Monday handed an Alaskan fishing guide a 20-year prison sentence, suspending all 20 years, for poaching elk, deer and antelope over several years. The judge also ordered Michael P. Duby, 37, to pay $15,500 in fines and restitution.
Duby pleaded no contest in April to four felony charges of illegal possession of game animals, saying he was "unable to admit" to any of the charges because federal charges are pending and a guilty plea could incriminate him.
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