The question is whether the grizzly can take recovery on paper and turn it into recovery in the wild. The answer, it now appears, is not entirely up to the bear.


Gold and grizzlies: a bad combination

In the mountains north of Cooke City and in other national forests surrounding Montana’s Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, important grizzly hear habitat is being threatened by a “neo-gold rush” — the recent explosion of hard rock mining on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Mules dance a backwoods ballet

Cal Samsel, based in Huson, Mont., runs a nine-mule team, delivering supplies to places in national forests in Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas where trucks can’t drive and helicopters can’t land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A dead end for the grizzly?

The question is whether the grizzly can take recovery on paper and turn it into recovery in the wild. The answer, it now appears, is not entirely up to the bear. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E