Type of bear spray, technique key to keeping safe during attack
By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian missoulian.com |
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:00 pm
When confronting an angry grizzly bear in the woods, the last thing you want to worry about is the fine print on your can of bear spray. (Click on the above link to read the article.)
Pope & Young Club
Newsletter Summer 2010
Spotlight Conservation Project, Be Bear Aware, Clearing the Fog On Bear Spray
by Troy Smith
New bear safety materials available
The Island Park News
by Julie Hamilton
May 27, 2010
 The Center for Wildlife Information (CWI), a non-profit organization headed by Chuck Bartlebaugh, coordinated the development of educational materials for the IGBC and their partners, which include state wildlife management agencies in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Washington, the Forest Service, Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the USGS Research.
Chris Servheen, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has worked with CWI for more than ten years to educate the public about grizzly bears and bear safety. (click here to read or print out the article)
 Be Prepared
(for Wildlife Encounters)
Be Prepared Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and others teach youngsters how to avoid conflicts with bears, cougars, and other wild animals.
By Vivaca Crowser
This story is featured in Montana Outdoors July–August 2009
 As I round the corner, I spy a bear cub just to the right of the trail. I know it’s only a taxidermy mount—carefully nestled into position among the ponderosa pines—but in my mind I pretend it’s alive: Has it seen me? Should I back away slowly? Run while it isn’t looking? Where is the mom?
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 Safari - The Journal of Big Game Hunting
Yellowstone’s Griz Recovery
What Does It Mean for Hunters?
July/August 2004
BY B. J. Mincher, Ph.D.
One can only imagine the the bowhunters’ elation as they returned to the kill site to pack out the meat. One had shot an elk that morning,... (click here to read the rest of the article - PDF)
 The Daily Inter Lake
Bear necessities
March 4, 2006
By Nancy Kimball
Campaign aims to keep tenderfoot explorers safe and aware where the wild things are. Click here to read the rest of the article
 The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
December 1, 2005
Agencies eye future of grizzlies
ChuckBartlebaugh is worried that television's warm and fuzzy message about grizzly bears is creating a dangerous situation in the backcountry. ...
From the March 31, 2005
SCREENS FROM A MAUL
By JAMIE KELLY
of the Missoulian
Timothy Treadwell said it would never happen, but if it did, he’d be proud to end up as a pile of bear scat. (Click here to read the rest of the article)
Additional Articles
- “Grizzly makes grisly”
Debra J Sanders
San Francisco Chronicle, (SF Gate) August 28, 2005
- "Grizzly Man" Movie Spurs New Looks at a Grisly Death
James Owen
for National Geographic News August 12, 2005
- 'Grizzly Man' - (Printer Friendly Version)
Posted: Friday, Apr 01, 2005 - 08:44:02 am PST
By JIM MANN
The Daily Inter Lake
- Bear Activist and Companion Mauled to Death in Alaska
Associated Press / May 8, 2004
Wolf Song of Alaska - News and Current Events
- Treadwell: Bear Film Prompts Copycat Concerns
Jeannette J. Lee / Associated Press / Anchorage Daily News / August 14, 2005
Wolf Song of Alaska - News and Current Events
- Mauled filmmaker was warned about his behavior
By SHERRY DEVLIN of the Missoulian / December 10, 2003
From August 27, 1998
Too close for comfort
By MARK MATTHEWS
of the Missoulian
MISSOULA – A few years ago, Chuck Bartlebaugh took a photograph of a young woman at Yellowstone National Park standing 10 feet in front of a bull elk whose head was submerged in the tall grass. The woman stood with her back to the elk and was looking away from the camera. (Click here to read the rest of the article)
 From April 6, 1996 The Bitterroot View
Signs of the Great Bear ->
Education is key to safety near wildlife ->
By TARA GALLAGHER
VICTOR - Five Victor High School students traveled up Bass Creek early Tuesday morning, raked scratches onto a mature pine tree, pressed grizzly-impression footprints into a patch of snow and deposited a largish Yellowstone-originated grizzly scat on the trail. (Click here to read the rest of the article)
From June 23, 1994
From A Distance
By SHERRY DEVLIN
of the Missoulian
The message becomes mantra when Chuck Bartlebaugh brings his slide show of outdoor “do’s” and “don’ts” to grade-school classrooms and national park amphitheaters. (Click here to read the rest of the article)
 Stormin’ Norman’s Soft on Bears
Tourist Slaps Grizzly Cub ->
By SCOTT McMILLION
The Bozeman Chronicle
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Grizzly bears and people can thrive side-by-side but people must learn to give a little, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf said here Friday morning. (Click here to read the rest of the article)
 “A fed animal is a dead animal"
Chicago Tribune,
Sunday, July 19, 1992
Alfred Boreover
Glacier National Park, Montana - "A fed animal is a dead animal." That's the admonition from the national park rangers as well as the Center for Wildlife information (Click here to read the rest of the article)
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