Conservation Northwest updates
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Grizzly bear
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above A poster asks people to keep an eye out for grizzly bears and report what they
see, between BC���s Coast Mountains and Cascades. Several grizzly bear populations
persist in this rich and fragmented area, but their populations are threatened. They
are the bears we most expect to help repopulate Washington���s North Cascades.
Photo �� John Hechtel; map by Brett Cole, brettcolephotography.com; black bear/grizzly bear i.d. artwork design by CWI/
Charles Bartlebaugh
Areas open (green) and closed (red) to grizzly bear hunting in BC. Threatened
units are identified by cross-hatching. White areas within BC show where bears are
extirpated and lost from the landscape. The map helps explain how the recovery of
grizzly bears in the Cascades depends on the recovery of and connectivity to bears
in southwest BC���s threatened populations.
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From the report, British Columbia Grizzly Bear Population Estimate for 2012, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource
Operations, April, 2012
Keeping the Northwest wild
Fall 2012
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Map by Brett Cole Photography
there, and created a web page, bearinfo.org/bc-bears,
with details. These bears are intensely important to
recovery in the greater Cascades of the US.
In partnership with government biologists we
are deploying motion-sensing cameras in key bear
habitats north of the border to help document
grizzly bear presence. We are analyzing the roads
network in the BC Cascades to get a clearer
picture of how those roads may be influencing
grizzly bear security and movement.
Roads are a good measure of grizzly bear mortality because people use them. Some of those
folks have guns and sports teams who just lost.
We are working with non-governmental groups
and individuals to reform policies in BC that are
supposed to arrest the ���cumulative impacts��� of
development before such impacts destroy wildlife
habitat.
Most importantly, we are reaching out to interested citizens and stakeholders in an effort to
build the kind of coalitions needed to recover
grizzly bears�� That includes people who under.
stand what grizzly bears mean to our cultures
and environment, and people who understand
what losing grizzly bears means to our children
and theirs. And they���re not just urban liberals���
they���re First Nations people, loggers, miners,
ranchers, and hunters.
If we don���t have them onside, we will lose the
Great Bear in the Cascades and surrounding areas. If we lose the grizzly, we lose the heart of wilderness, no matter how much land we protect.
Seen a grizzly bear?
Grizzly bear photo �� John Hechtel
International conservation director,
jscott@conservationnw.org
Graphics �� Center for Wildlife Info
Joe Scott
