Cuddly teddy bears!

"Well, it looks like Plater and his gang are looking for another payday. I think Grizzlies at Tahoe would be a hoot. Or, how about wandering down main street, Placerville? I'm sure human interaction would never take place!" (Jim Wagner)

We could play, good idea...

 Reuters/Laura Zuckerman (Salmon, Idaho), edited by Eric M. Johnson and Jim Loney, 6/18/14. "Conservation group demands U.S. restore grizzly bears to native range."

.... "The Center for Biological Diversity argued in a formal petition submitted to the U.S. Interior Department that grizzlies should be restored to their native range in such places as California's Sierra Nevada and the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

....   The areas, it said, still contain large tracts of undeveloped habitat favored by the bears. An estimated 1,600 grizzlies roam Yellowstone National Park and its border states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The proposal by the Center for Biological Diversity would see as many as 6,000 grizzlies in the U.S. West, including parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. The petition was filed under an administrative component of the Endangered Species Act. 

....The push by the Arizona-based group comes as government managers of grizzlies in and around Yellowstone claim that the population of more than 600 bears is sufficiently recovered and should be stripped of federal safeguards, opening the way for hunting outside the park."  Read article.

Submitted by Jim Wagner

Note:  photograph from Glossi/Taiga by Nickyb. "The Tremendous Taiga, symbiotic relationships, predators/prey," slide page 5 of 11. "The one and only threat to grizzly bears is humans. We hunt them and we trap them. The bears are not involved in a symbiotic relationship."

Posted by Kathy Meeh