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...grizzlies might not stick around long enough to face off with the polar bears, says Rockwell, but he isn't buying that. The 4,000-plus-sq.-mi. park where hunting is banned is what Rockwell calls a "food mecca" for grizzlies. Wapusk is home to some 7,000 caribou, an equal number of moose and untold numbers of rabbits, fish, geese and other creatures. When Rockwell and his team ask the real experts - the Cree elders whose ancestors have lived there for generations - they say, "Why would a bear that's found a huge food source go someplace else...
...predator could in some ways make life easier for the white bears, says Rockwell. "Polar bears will eat anything they can get their grubby little mouths around," he says. "They'll take flightless geese, seals silly enough to get caught on shore when the tide goes out and caribou and moose calves. But they can't run fast enough to bring down adult moose or caribou." Grizzlies can and do - but the catch is, as soon as a grizzly knocks one down, the polar bears will smell it. "An adult male grizzly might weigh 600 lb. An adult polar bear...
...Gros Morne National Park Located on the province's west coast, this wonderland of forest and fjords, www.grosmorne.com, is home to moose, caribou, whales, eagles and black bears. Spend a morning hiking around the Tablelands, a slice of ancient ocean floor forced up when the continents of Africa and North America collided several million years ago. Then take a boat trip down Western Brook Pond in the isolated northern reaches of the park. Don't be fooled by the word pond: Western Brook is 10 miles (16 km) long. The journey through the jagged cliffs and cascading waterfalls will leave...
...accident. Her second husband, John McKernan, was a colleague of hers in both the legislature and U.S. House; he later became Maine's governor. Snowe replaced George Mitchell when he retired from the Senate in 1994. Collins, 56, was one of six children in a politically active family in Caribou, a town of 8,300 at the nation's northeastern tip, 15 miles (24 km) from Canada. Her father was a state senator; her mother, a mayor; and an uncle, a state supreme court justice. She learned her way around Capitol Hill working as an aide to Senator William Cohen...
...past two months since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, the Alaska Governor has become a web phenomenon, generating torrents of YouTube hype and interactive web applications from the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator to the latest: PalinAsPresident. It's a picture of the self-professed Caribou Barbie behind a cluttered desk in the Oval Office; its contents - from a ringing red telephone to a closet full of "secrets" - animate when clicked...