The remains are left after the bears are trapped and killed on private property for stripping bark from trees to get at sugary sapwood
How many bears are they allowed to kill?
Gary Ziak of Knappa, a logging-road builder, found a heap of remains at Jewell Meadows, his curiosity piqued by turkey vultures circling overhead
Official Press Release Link This official press release by the Nature Conservancy has detailed maps, photos and a fact sheet of this special area.
The last big piece of privately owned timberland in the Adirondacks — a craggy 161,000-acre wilderness of hardwood forests, 80 mountain peaks, 70 crystal-clear lakes and ponds, undammed rivers, white water gorges and secluded bogs — has been sold for $110 million to the Nature Conservancy, in a move intended to protect the land from future development.
A diverse group of sportsmen, conservationists, loggers and ranchers is encouraging the state’s congressional delegation to sponsor an ambitious grass-roots management plan for the Blackfoot and Clearwater drainages.
We have a rare opportunity in West Virginia to keep some of our last remaining wild places just as they are for current and future generations to enjoy.
OSCEOLA NATIONAL FOREST, FL — They were dubbed the ‘Bugaboo Bears’ by firefighters who spotted the dehydrated cub high in a burned out tree, and its mother with third-degree burns on the pads of her feet, in agony far below.
JACKSON - An energy company that planned to drill three exploratory wells near Bondurant in the Bridger-Teton National Forest wants to conduct a more extensive review of drilling in the area.
UINTA NATIONAL FOREST - A heap of garbage with half eaten food stuffed into a fire ring at a campsite in American Fork Canyon illustrates what some campers leave behind and what officials with the Uinta National Forest Service claim triggered the bear attack that killed 11-year old Samuel Ives.