Post by grrraaahhh on Oct 3, 2012 4:05:52 GMT -9
From the News section, Western Alberta & southern B.C. uncertainty:
"There are some parts of the country, largely in the relatively unsettled portions of northern B.C. and the northern territories, where grizzly bear populations are stable and even expanding. But around the edges of Canada's Great Bear Country, in western Alberta and southern B.C., a panoply of human activities continues to fray the fabric of our forests, leaving a ragged patchwork quilt of small, isolated and threatened subpopulations of grizzly bears that are at increasing risk of becoming the latest victims in our 200-year conquest of the forests and grasslands over which they were once lords."
www.vancouversun.com/technology/Grizzly+bears+longer+lords+land/4620076/story.html
Follow Up....
New uses for Banff and Jasper parks called threat to wildlife
By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald July 13, 2012
"With as few as 60 grizzly bears in Banff National Park, a well-known wilderness group says a via ferrata - which mounts ladders, metal rungs and bridges into rock - at Mount Norquay ski hill could damage a critical summer habitat for the threatened species.
Similarly, it says a plan to build a glass-floored viewing platform over the Sunwapta Valley in Jasper National Park could endanger wildlife."
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For the full article, read here: www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/uses+Banff+Jasper+parks+called+threat+wildlife/6929187/story.html
CPAWS REPORT:
FULL CPAWS REPORT PDF LINK: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=jq=cpaws+canadian+parks+and+wilderness+society+jasper+national+park+2012+report&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcpaws.org%2Fuploads%2Fcpaws_parksreport_2012.pdf&ei=041rUNmpMMbo0QGi84CgDw&usg=AFQjCNHgFMd-WxSD-S0mYSqaXYjbQZ0GCA
Grizzly bears no longer lords of the land
"There are some parts of the country, largely in the relatively unsettled portions of northern B.C. and the northern territories, where grizzly bear populations are stable and even expanding. But around the edges of Canada's Great Bear Country, in western Alberta and southern B.C., a panoply of human activities continues to fray the fabric of our forests, leaving a ragged patchwork quilt of small, isolated and threatened subpopulations of grizzly bears that are at increasing risk of becoming the latest victims in our 200-year conquest of the forests and grasslands over which they were once lords."
www.vancouversun.com/technology/Grizzly+bears+longer+lords+land/4620076/story.html
Follow Up....
New uses for Banff and Jasper parks called threat to wildlife
By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald July 13, 2012
"With as few as 60 grizzly bears in Banff National Park, a well-known wilderness group says a via ferrata - which mounts ladders, metal rungs and bridges into rock - at Mount Norquay ski hill could damage a critical summer habitat for the threatened species.
Similarly, it says a plan to build a glass-floored viewing platform over the Sunwapta Valley in Jasper National Park could endanger wildlife."
[....]
For the full article, read here: www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/uses+Banff+Jasper+parks+called+threat+wildlife/6929187/story.html
CPAWS REPORT:
FULL CPAWS REPORT PDF LINK: www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=jq=cpaws+canadian+parks+and+wilderness+society+jasper+national+park+2012+report&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcpaws.org%2Fuploads%2Fcpaws_parksreport_2012.pdf&ei=041rUNmpMMbo0QGi84CgDw&usg=AFQjCNHgFMd-WxSD-S0mYSqaXYjbQZ0GCA