According to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST), which serves as the official government repository for information on dead grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), 73 Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears are dead, most by human hands — breaking the all-time record set in 2024 of 72. Source: IGBST provisional dead bear database, as summarized in this article. The current death rate is unsustainably high and threatens to reverse the hard-fought progress

By David Mattson, Ph.D. The governors of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho have been moving Heaven and Earth to hasten removal of Endangered...

My friend Brian Peck passed away at his Columbia Falls, MT, home in the company of his loving wife Linda on November 7, 2021, after a...

Photo by Steven Gnam This blog summarizes an essay in Grizzly Times’ new essay series, launched to provide more detailed analyses than...

Photo by Tom Mangelsen. This is the second of a two-part blog about the famous bear matron of Jackson Hole, Grizzly 399, the threats...

Photo by Tom Mangelsen. This is the first of a two-part blog on the famous bear matron of Jackson Hole, Grizzly 399, and the mounting...

by Louisa Willcox Our relationship with wildlife has thankfully evolved since 80 AD when during a single day 50,000 cheering fans packed...

Sacred Bear Butte, six miles north of Sturgis, South Dakota by David Mattson I grew up in the Black Hills of western South Dakota on a...

Ernest Hemingway (right) with grizzly bear killed in Timber Creek drainage of Wyoming Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy...

by David Mattson My Google Alerts inbox has been flooded during the last week by an article making the rounds among national and regional...