In the late 1980s, grizzly bears in the Cabinet Mountains were in trouble. The range southwest of Libby, Montana, had only six or so bears left, and wildlife managers were concerned the population ...

NATIONAL FORESTS –Wildlife managers recently released an 8- to 10-year-old female grizzly bear in hopes of bolstering the grizzly population in the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem of northwest Montana. Montana ...

Both grizzly bears that were moved to the Cabinet Mountains this year as part of a population augmentation program now are dead, and a Noxon man was cited for shooting one of them behind his house.

LINCOLN COUNTY, Mont. - FWP workers moved a captured grizzly bear to Lincoln County last week. The relocation was an effort to boost grizzly numbers in the Cabinet Mountains. The Cabinets are in the ...

Without question, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears are the most isolated and threatened population in Montana. The bad news is that this already small population is going downhill so fast it’s ...

In the late 1980s, grizzly bears in the Cabinet Mountains were in trouble. The range southwest of Libby had only six or so bears left, and wildlife managers were concerned the population could go ...

Whether grizzly bear numbers in northwest Montana are stable, shrinking or growing, both sides of a lawsuit over their federal status agree there aren’t enough of them. But lawyers for the Alliance ...

WHITEFISH - A Missoula-based nonprofit organization this week adopted a 71-acre tract of wildlife habitat in the Yaak Mountains near Troy that it hopes will improve grizzly bear migration corridors.

Vol. 10, A Selection of Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Bear Research and Management, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1995, and Mora, Sweden, September 1995 (1998), pp. 147-153 (7 pages) ...

Montana wildlife officials are investigating the fatal shooting of an adult female grizzly bear by two backpackers who said they were acting in self-defense. The surprise encounter occurred Aug. 2 on ...