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Going online for grizz
This week, we welcome the North Cascades Grizzly Bear to the web, as this majestic icon of the Northwest’s wild landscapes and poster cub for healthy ecosystems, with its very own Facebook Fan Page! The bear is there and ready to show the world how popular it really is. Become a fan, learn more about the grizzly from experts like Chris Morgan and the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project, get the inside scoop on field studies and science , share your bear lore, and take easy action on important alerts to protect this important species. And yes, it’s Facebook, so you can expect their might be a few fun tidbits and a contest or two.
There are fewer than 20 bears in the North Cascades. We know there are way more than 20 of you who care enough to add your voice to the growing call for the healthy future of the grizzly bear. Stop on by the North Cascades Grizzly Bear Fan Page to make a new big furry friend!
Northwest wildlife hits hottest list
We all want to be on the "A List," unless that list puts you in the running for the wildlife most negatively affected by climate change. A report from the Endangered Species Coalition puts some of our favorite wildlife in the hot seat.
We need all creatures great and small
New study published in the journal Bioscience concludes that a catastrophic decline around the world of "apex" predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller "mesopredators" that are causing major economic and ecological disruptions.
Wildlife caught on film II, the return
This week, Conservation Northwest hosted two showings of the film "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators." Supporters in Spokane and Twisp packed the house to address the following: "Top predators hold a key to life itself. Can people and predators coexist? Can we afford not to?" Guest blogger, author, and tracker Linda Jo Hunter gives us her take on the film.
Go, bears
It's been a roller coaster ride for bears this month, with polar bears losing a chance to have their ice cap homes protected from global warming by the Endangered Species Act, and the North Cascades grizzly gaining and then losing vital funding that would have finally pushed forward real recovery efforts. We humans aren't scoring big for bears this week, but maybe next week will help us make up for it.
Time is running out for North Cascades "ghost bears"
Joe Scott comments on Seattle Times book review on "Grizzly Wars: The Public Fight Over the Great Bear" by David Knibb. He thanks Mr. Knibb for alerting Washingtonians that we're about to lose the only remaining population of grizzly bears outside of the Rocky Mountains, the grizzly bears of the North Cascades. But he begs to differ on another point: opinion polls show people to be strongly in favor, not divided, in their support for recovery of the great bear.
