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Louisa Willcox
- Jul 29, 2015
The warp of time, space and wishful thinking
What makes grizzly bear recovery particularly challenging for reporters and the rest of us are the big scales and long time frames involved. With home ranges in the realm of 400 square miles in Yellowstone, grizzly bears cannot be relegated to parks and public lands: lacking map reading skills, bears need habitat at the scale of whole ecosystems. Thus, an integrated multi-scale approach is needed, at federal, state, county and personal levels. But reporters have an imperative


Louisa Willcox
- Jul 22, 2015
Under the Czar’s Shadow
It is hard to fathom why the government, which supposedly operates on behalf of the larger public trust, would spin the science and push delisting as it has for over two decades. While we may long speculate on this question, this conundrum poses a particular problem for reporters. All roads lead back to the iron fist of the federal Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator Chris Servheen, who has been long known as the grizzly “czar”. He has a well-established track record of being v