Grizzly Bear
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department it captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear outside of Cody last week, according to the website Buckrail. The bear was captured because of cattle depredation on private land west of Cody on Friday, May 24, so says WGFD. The grizzly was released in the Blackrock Creek drainage,…
24 grizzly bears have died or have been discovered dead in the Greater Yellowstone area so far this year, with eight so far being killed for livestock depredation. This number also includes a bear that drowned in an irrigation canal. The latest grizzly bear death occurred earlier this month, when a 20-year old bear was…
Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear on Aug. 15 after consulting with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The bear was captured for livestock depredation northwest of Thermopolis on private land and was relocated to the Five Mile Creek drainage approximately 41 miles west of Cody. Bear…
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult female grizzly bear after consulting with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The bear was captured on August 6 due to “livestock depredation” on private land northwest of Cody. Wildlife officials relocated the bear to the area of the Five Mile Creek drainage,…
Grizzly bears are fiercely protective animals. They are not afraid to attack anyone or anything that gets too close to their cubs, but they are even more protective over their food. In this video, captured by @yellowstone_enthusiast and shared to @touronsofyellowstone, multiple groups of tourists watch very closely as a grizzly feasted on what appears…
Summer is always an “eventful” time in Yellowstone National Park, often to the amusement and dismay of locals and others with an emotional investment in the park and its preservation. But Summer 2023 feels unlike any other with the number of incidents being reported and – in many instances – caught on camera. The May…
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It was a zero-tolerance policy for Wyoming’s grizzlies in 2022 – fewer bears were captured, but most were permanently “removed” from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wyoming Game and Fish has released its annual grizzly bear capture report to the public, which contains data on every grizzly captured and relocated by the department in 2022. The…
As part of the Endangered Species Act, grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are monitored by biologists from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST). IGBST will conduct its pre-baiting and trapping operations inside of Grand Teton National Park from May 1 to July 15th this year. Established in 1973, the IGBST monitors…
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