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...spend enough money to monitor the bears, that efforts to make hunters clean up after themselves won't work and that the trigger mechanisms for relisting the grizzly are inadequate--they don't, for example, kick in when the bears' favorite food supply, the seeds of the whitebark pine, succumbs to disease or insects. "[The FWS does] do reviews," she says. "There's nothing that says they have to do anything to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaring Back | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate a crucial source of prehibernation protein, the whitebark pine nut. Though less than 20% of the whitebark pine trees in the park were burned, some scientists feel that a larger percentage of trees of nut-bearing age were killed. A shortage of the nuts could drive bears from higher altitudes this fall -- and into more confrontations with humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Springtime in The Rockies | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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