Grizzly Bear Environmental Issues

transferred to the Toledo Zoo sometime around the fall. The toledo zoo announced Friday that the cubs, which weigh about 50 pounds are less than a year old. The Wildlife officials stated that they're too young to survive in the wild life without their mother to protect them.

"An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the (hiker's) body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding," the park said in a media statement. "Normal defensive attacks by female bears defending their young do not involve consumption of the victim's body."

The grizzly bear was captured in a matter of minutes after the park ranger found mr Crosby's body on

August 7 2105. The park evidence said

Concerns of the grizzly bear numbers dropped during the 1970’s and the fate of the grizzly bear fate is mounted, regulations was adopted pertaining to storing food. In 1991 the agencies considered seriously more on mandatory restrictions especially for hunter practices. When the government revisited the issue of adopting new rules which included the hunters certification.

2015 the berries of Yellowstone park the main source for the grizzly bear also declined throughout the ecosystem. The grizzlies are force to scramble for food. Climate shows that the future of the parks berries in the ecosystem is dropping. Elk is another which is are also expected to further decline due to climate-driven deterioration in forage conditions.

Life for grizzly bears will get worse threw out time with more conflicts that will end up with dead bears. In the article it stated “Even the Fish and Wildlife Service has admitted that the primary post-delisting management plan, the Conservation Strategy, cannot actually regulate anything. And this agency has fiercely resisted any mechanism to relist bears if the population crashes in the face of excessive

Article by: Louisa Wilcox Yellowstone National Park this year has passed the previous record that was in 2010 for total annual visitation. The park has seen more than 3.8 million visits for this year alone, which passes the previous record in 2010 for the busiest year of 3.6 million.

Yellowstone has hosted a total of 680,213 recreational visits in September, an increase of 18.97 % compared to a September total of 2014 numbers. Octobers numbers bring the total up to 3, 814,178 recreational visits in the first 10 months of 2015, which is 15.97% over 2014.

" Dan Wink, mentioned "We are delighted to see that more and more visitors are making their way to

Yellowstone to experience the park. However, it creates additional challenges for our staff who work hard to protect this amazing place while providing top-notch services for visitors. We want to do everything we can to make sure that park visitors have a safe and enjoyable trip, while at the same time protecting the special resources that Yellowstone was set aside to preserve."

Month Recreational Visits