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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Washington State biologist Chris Morgan is releasing a documentary film entitltled: WANTED: GRIZZLY BEARS? about the USFW poposal to rewild the iconic bear to the northern Cascades............You can watch the film by going to grizzlybearfilm.org


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Grizzlies in North Cascades are latest focus for Bellingham ecologist


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People who watch nature documentaries might recognize Morgan’s face or voice. He has hosted a number of films about bears in Alaska, including for PBS Nature and the BBC.
The “Wanted” short includes footage of grizzlies from one of them, a series called “Bears of the Last Frontier,” which was shot in Alaska.
THESE ARE PUBLIC LANDS. THESE ARE PUBLIC GRIZZLY BEARS. THIS IS A PUBLIC ISSUE. PEOPLE SHOULD WEIGH IN ON IT.Chris Morgan, Bellingham ecologist and filmmaker
Morgan also is a filmmaker and bear biologist who has focused on the animals for 25 years. And in “Wanted,” he sets out to share what he knows while talking to people at stops near Artist Point, the North Cascades Highway overlook at Liberty Bell Mountain, Winthrop, and around Twisp.
“There’s so much misinformation out there,” Morgan said in an interview. “People think they’re far more dangerous than they are.”
For example, he asked people in the film, how much does a grizzly cub weigh when it’s born?
Their guesses ranged from 80 pounds down to 12 pounds.
The answer is 1 pound.
“They’re the size and weight of a squirrel,” Morgan said in an interview.
The bears’ diet also is a surprise to people, he said. Less than 20 percent of it is meat, and plants are their most common food.
In the end, Morgan hopes to pique people’s curiosity and for people to get involved.
“These are public lands. These are public grizzly bears. This is a public issue,” Morgan said. “People should weigh in on it.”
Kie Relyea: 360-715-2234@kierelyea
WATCH THE FILM
“Wanted: Grizzly Bears?” can be seen online at grizzlybearfilm.org.
More on grizzly bear recovery efforts in the North Cascades and elsewhere are at:
▪ nps.gov/noca/grizzly.htm, North Cascades National Park to read about the environmental impacts of restoring a self-sustaining grizzly bear population in the North Cascades ecosystem.
▪ igbconline.org, Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee.

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