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My name is Holly k I’m in school to become a RN. I don’t really know what to say…I think that hunting any animal that is endangered like the bear is a horrible thing to do. I think it should be illegal to hunt animals that are endangered and I also think that we should have a place that we can out a male and female of the endangered species and let them mate and put their babies back into the wild when they are ready to go so that they won’t be endangered and hopefully they will mate some more and reproduce. I think that the wild life corporation should watch the bears and make sure people arent going into the woods to hunt the bears.
Hi my name is Kecia, I am in group 5.My story was Yellowstone grizzly bear dealth. Why are they dieing at such high rate, 1 Hunters 2 there natural and unnatural food . How can we help them ? Plant more trees.
Hey, im Mitch. This article was an ok article..the five points it made where decent about how the grizzly’s bears died. With the “known and probable” deaths. Although I didn’t really understand why he made it sound like the cutthroat trout was the only fish they would eat. Yeah they provided a rich food source for grizzlies but that isn’t the only type of fish a grizzlies bear would eat. How is the lake trout that much different than the cutthroat trout? I’m sure the bear is just trying to eat. “The 2010 grizzly bear death toll is expected to exceed mortality limits established in 2005 so Endangered Species Act protections for grizzlies could be removed. U.S Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator Chris Servheen plans to raise mortality limits again.” I also didn’t understand how if the death toll is decreasing but yet the Endangered Species Act will be removed? That doesn’t make since then they’re all about saving them. I would also like to know what Chirrs Servheen plans to do to raise the mortality limits?
Hello my name is Kevan and he is my response on the article I’ve read. After reading the article I noticed that it’s really not intentionally happening that the grizzlies are becoming extinct. The evidence shows that during the fall that hunt for more food natural and un-natural such as trash, livestock. Also the fall is a big deer and elk hunting season putting a lot of traffic in the woods anyway. Now in turn allows the grizzles to be shot in self defense, by hunters and property owners. Most importantly two of natural food sources are almost obsolete due to the fish they eat are now starting to be eaten and the cone off a particular tree are dying off and also being eaten by squirrels.
Excellent start! Kecia pointed out that hunters, often in self-defense, kill Grizzly Bears during hunting season, and Kevan answered a lot of questions about the Grizzlies food supply that Mitch had asked about. Holly also pointed out that Grizzly hunting should be illegal, which you all may be happy to know is partly true - it's illegal to hunt Grizzly Bears in parks, where most of them live.
What might help everyone better understand this article is looking at some of the links provided on Grizzly Bears on this blog. Part of the problem with Grizzly Bears is that 80 to 90% of their diet is actually not fish - it's plants. And the bears' favorite food isn't the cutthroat trout, it's berries off of the Whitebark Pine, which, surprise surprise, is on the endangered plant list. Suffice to say, the Grizzly Bears' habitat is in danger due mostly to human development. Since their habitat and food sources are threatened, Grizzlies then go through the trash, or into human items (several Grizzly Bears get hit by trains because they are getting into stopped cattle grain (cow food) trucks on railway lines) and thus humans shoot the bears. A total of only 1,200-1,400 Grizzly Bears still survive in five populations in North America. That's less bears than there are people on our campus on a given school day.
So what can be done? Well, Mitch asked a very fine question to that effect: why are these bears being removed from the Endangered Species List if they are still in trouble? This is a complicated question, which I would ask all of you in the group to continue to consider. Also, what is being done to help Grizzly Bears currently? Are they re-populating in some areas more than others (say, Canada or Alaska vs. Yellowstone Nat'l Park)? Are Grizzly Bears actually dangerous - do they mean us any harm when they encroach onto human property? Are they naturally aggressive animals?Why are Grizzly Bears seen as "trophy" animals to hunt, anyway? And what can we do to restore their habitat?
I would like to start by addressing the issue that Erin M. pointed out about: What can be done? Truthfully not much out side of breeding them like dogs. Due to the fact that they truly are becoming extinct due to everything around them evolving. To answer why grizzle bears are being removed from the endangered species list, is simple nothing last forever. Just like studies say that dinosaurs became extinct because of the ice age. That for me means that they could not adapt to the climate, therefore failure to evolve. Now isn’t that similar in not so many words to what we are seeing in grizzles as well. I also say no point in trying to preserve or rehabilitate their habitat, if they do not evolve in some way there will continue to be problems of their existence forever.
The response I give to Kecia is almost everyone feels that the answer to most problems is plant more trees. Unfortunately it’s not because trees grow tall and bears can’t truly climb tall trees. Also the more we grow as humans we need to increase the size of our habitats.
My response to Holly K. I say great idea but we still have to consider what about the volunteers or employees of these “bear farms” being badly injured are killed in the early stages of operation. As a close I say “If you can’t swim then you will drown unless you know how to breath underwater”.
Hey this is Mitch. “To answer why grizzle bears are being removed from the endangered species list, is simple nothing last forever” from Kevan M..that’s stupid because they wouldn’t just give up on an animal they’ve been trying to save..If anything they would take them out of their natural habitat and put them like in a fenced area for them to repopulate or even in some big ass zoo just to keep them alive. And just like any other animal I don’t think Grizzly Bears are actually dangerous..Unless they feel threaten or scared, whether they run into a hunter, or protecting their young or even looking threw the trash for some food. They don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, just trying to get a quick meal. I’m sure if there was a bear out in my trash cans I wouldn’t approach it, even if I had a gun. Things could still go bad. You could miss the kill shot which would either scare the bear and make it leave..Or even piss him off where he charges you and you freak out. Just to be another victim mauled by a bear. Also their not dumb so if they can’t find anything then they will move on, or they would get full and wonder back where they came from. And instead of killing them if and when they return you can just keep your trash cans in a cage or something. Bc if your somewhere where a bear will come up to your house then I’m sure there’s other things to worry about also. Example raccoons love trash as well; coyotes will smell it out too.
And just a thought, the easiest way to restore their habitat would be to find some of the seeds of the plants they enjoy to eat and grow a lot somewhere away from the bears or in a controlled environment where they can later go plant them around the woods and hope that the plants will slowly start to repopulate them self.
well I have a response putting the bears in a zoo isn’t going to help that much because when animals are in the zoo they don’t reproduce at the same rate as in their natural environment and then when they do there off spring stay in the zoo so that really wouldn’t help that much. Also I don’t think the bear is trying to hurt anyone unless they feel like they are in danger I think people just need to stay out of their habitat. As for their food we need to figure out how we can provide more berries for them to eat.
This is holly K I was just writing my third comment and addressing Mitch and his comment saying grizzly bear aren’t actually dangerous I agree with that I don’t think they are out to harm us..We just end up invading their space and they get territorial. http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/grizzly.htm this is a good article for the bears…it is talking about the same stuff with the bears and them being endangered. I didn’t know that grizzly bears were endangered so I learn that I knew that there was animals that were endangered but I thought the grizzly bears were not….I wish that people were not hunting animals that were endangered.
Mitch again. For Holly, putting them ina zoo isn’t going to be the best thing for them. And I totally understand how “they don’t reproduce at the same rate as in their natural environment and then when they do there off spring stay in the zoo so that really wouldn’t help that much” but this would help them from dying out completely. At the same time it doesn’t have to be a “zoo” it could be a life like wildlife environment where their young wouldn’t lose any of their natural instincts. http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/grizzly_bear.php isa decent wesite explaining a lot about grizzly’s bears. Just the facts about them and how their numbers are still decreasing.
Hi my name is Kecia This is my 2 post.The title was Saning America's Last Great of Wilderness.Mardy Murie spoke for all " I hope the United states of Americ is not so rich , That she can let the wildrinesses pass by or so poor she can not afford to keep them. This is saying to me rich or poor we all can help,
Kecia again, we all need to take look around us. we get in every day life and not in the wildrinesses and befor we no it , its gone. we all can help rich or poor , zoo's can help some but its not the answer.1 Plant trees for the fruit and berrys they eat 2 Have land just for the in danger animals and people / Rangers to keep watch on them, which they all ready do.
More information on the plight of the bear - Google "polar bears" for even MORE info! - copy and paste link into your browser's address bar:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.associatedcontent.com/article/213991/endangered_species_grizzly_bear.html?cat=4
My name is Holly k I’m in school to become a RN. I don’t really know what to say…I think that hunting any animal that is endangered like the bear is a horrible thing to do. I think it should be illegal to hunt animals that are endangered and I also think that we should have a place that we can out a male and female of the endangered species and let them mate and put their babies back into the wild when they are ready to go so that they won’t be endangered and hopefully they will mate some more and reproduce. I think that the wild life corporation should watch the bears and make sure people arent going into the woods to hunt the bears.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Kecia, I am in group 5.My story was Yellowstone grizzly bear dealth. Why are they dieing at such high rate, 1 Hunters 2 there natural and unnatural food . How can we help them ? Plant more trees.
ReplyDeleteHey, im Mitch.
ReplyDeleteThis article was an ok article..the five points it made where decent about how the grizzly’s bears died. With the “known and probable” deaths. Although I didn’t really understand why he made it sound like the cutthroat trout was the only fish they would eat. Yeah they provided a rich food source for grizzlies but that isn’t the only type of fish a grizzlies bear would eat. How is the lake trout that much different than the cutthroat trout? I’m sure the bear is just trying to eat.
“The 2010 grizzly bear death toll is expected to exceed mortality limits established in 2005 so Endangered Species Act protections for grizzlies could be removed. U.S Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator Chris Servheen plans to raise mortality limits again.”
I also didn’t understand how if the death toll is decreasing but yet the Endangered Species Act will be removed? That doesn’t make since then they’re all about saving them. I would also like to know what Chirrs Servheen plans to do to raise the mortality limits?
Hello my name is Kevan and he is my response on the article I’ve read.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article I noticed that it’s really not intentionally happening that the grizzlies are becoming extinct. The evidence shows that during the fall that hunt for more food natural and un-natural such as trash, livestock. Also the fall is a big deer and elk hunting season putting a lot of traffic in the woods anyway. Now in turn allows the grizzles to be shot in self defense, by hunters and property owners. Most importantly two of natural food sources are almost obsolete due to the fish they eat are now starting to be eaten and the cone off a particular tree are dying off and also being eaten by squirrels.
Excellent start! Kecia pointed out that hunters, often in self-defense, kill Grizzly Bears during hunting season, and Kevan answered a lot of questions about the Grizzlies food supply that Mitch had asked about. Holly also pointed out that Grizzly hunting should be illegal, which you all may be happy to know is partly true - it's illegal to hunt Grizzly Bears in parks, where most of them live.
ReplyDeleteWhat might help everyone better understand this article is looking at some of the links provided on Grizzly Bears on this blog. Part of the problem with Grizzly Bears is that 80 to 90% of their diet is actually not fish - it's plants. And the bears' favorite food isn't the cutthroat trout, it's berries off of the Whitebark Pine, which, surprise surprise, is on the endangered plant list. Suffice to say, the Grizzly Bears' habitat is in danger due mostly to human development. Since their habitat and food sources are threatened, Grizzlies then go through the trash, or into human items (several Grizzly Bears get hit by trains because they are getting into stopped cattle grain (cow food) trucks on railway lines) and thus humans shoot the bears. A total of only 1,200-1,400 Grizzly Bears still survive in five populations in North America. That's less bears than there are people on our campus on a given school day.
So what can be done? Well, Mitch asked a very fine question to that effect: why are these bears being removed from the Endangered Species List if they are still in trouble? This is a complicated question, which I would ask all of you in the group to continue to consider. Also, what is being done to help Grizzly Bears currently? Are they re-populating in some areas more than others (say, Canada or Alaska vs. Yellowstone Nat'l Park)? Are Grizzly Bears actually dangerous - do they mean us any harm when they encroach onto human property? Are they naturally aggressive animals?Why are Grizzly Bears seen as "trophy" animals to hunt, anyway? And what can we do to restore their habitat?
Hi this is Kevan M. again .
ReplyDeleteI would like to start by addressing the issue that Erin M. pointed out about: What can be done? Truthfully not much out side of breeding them like dogs. Due to the fact that they truly are becoming extinct due to everything around them evolving. To answer why grizzle bears are being removed from the endangered species list, is simple nothing last forever. Just like studies say that dinosaurs became extinct because of the ice age. That for me means that they could not adapt to the climate, therefore failure to evolve. Now isn’t that similar in not so many words to what we are seeing in grizzles as well. I also say no point in trying to preserve or rehabilitate their habitat, if they do not evolve in some way there will continue to be problems of their existence forever.
The response I give to Kecia is almost everyone feels that the answer to most problems is plant more trees. Unfortunately it’s not because trees grow tall and bears can’t truly climb tall trees. Also the more we grow as humans we need to increase the size of our habitats.
My response to Holly K. I say great idea but we still have to consider what about the volunteers or employees of these “bear farms” being badly injured are killed in the early stages of operation. As a close I say “If you can’t swim then you will drown unless you know how to breath underwater”.
Hey this is Mitch.
ReplyDelete“To answer why grizzle bears are being removed from the endangered species list, is simple nothing last forever” from Kevan M..that’s stupid because they wouldn’t just give up on an animal they’ve been trying to save..If anything they would take them out of their natural habitat and put them like in a fenced area for them to repopulate or even in some big ass zoo just to keep them alive.
And just like any other animal I don’t think Grizzly Bears are actually dangerous..Unless they feel threaten or scared, whether they run into a hunter, or protecting their young or even looking threw the trash for some food. They don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, just trying to get a quick meal. I’m sure if there was a bear out in my trash cans I wouldn’t approach it, even if I had a gun. Things could still go bad. You could miss the kill shot which would either scare the bear and make it leave..Or even piss him off where he charges you and you freak out. Just to be another victim mauled by a bear. Also their not dumb so if they can’t find anything then they will move on, or they would get full and wonder back where they came from. And instead of killing them if and when they return you can just keep your trash cans in a cage or something. Bc if your somewhere where a bear will come up to your house then I’m sure there’s other things to worry about also. Example raccoons love trash as well; coyotes will smell it out too.
And just a thought, the easiest way to restore their habitat would be to find some of the seeds of the plants they enjoy to eat and grow a lot somewhere away from the bears or in a controlled environment where they can later go plant them around the woods and hope that the plants will slowly start to repopulate them self.
This is holly k…again
ReplyDeletewell I have a response putting the bears in a zoo isn’t going to help that much because when animals are in the zoo they don’t reproduce at the same rate as in their natural environment and then when they do there off spring stay in the zoo so that really wouldn’t help that much. Also I don’t think the bear is trying to hurt anyone unless they feel like they are in danger I think people just need to stay out of their habitat. As for their food we need to figure out how we can provide more berries for them to eat.
This is holly K I was just writing my third comment and addressing Mitch and his comment saying grizzly bear aren’t actually dangerous I agree with that I don’t think they are out to harm us..We just end up invading their space and they get territorial. http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/grizzly.htm this is a good article for the bears…it is talking about the same stuff with the bears and them being endangered. I didn’t know that grizzly bears were endangered so I learn that I knew that there was animals that were endangered but I thought the grizzly bears were not….I wish that people were not hunting animals that were endangered.
ReplyDeleteMitch again.
ReplyDeleteFor Holly, putting them ina zoo isn’t going to be the best thing for them. And I totally understand how “they don’t reproduce at the same rate as in their natural environment and then when they do there off spring stay in the zoo so that really wouldn’t help that much” but this would help them from dying out completely. At the same time it doesn’t have to be a “zoo” it could be a life like wildlife environment where their young wouldn’t lose any of their natural instincts. http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/grizzly_bear.php isa decent wesite explaining a lot about grizzly’s bears. Just the facts about them and how their numbers are still decreasing.
Hi my name is Kecia This is my 2 post.The title was Saning America's Last Great of Wilderness.Mardy Murie spoke for all " I hope the United states of Americ is not so rich , That she can let the wildrinesses pass by or so poor she can not afford to keep them. This is saying to me rich or poor we all can help,
ReplyDeleteKecia again, we all need to take look around us. we get in every day life and not in the wildrinesses and befor we no it , its gone. we all can help rich or poor , zoo's can help some but its not the answer.1 Plant trees for the fruit and berrys they eat 2 Have land just for the in danger animals and people / Rangers to keep watch on them, which they all ready do.
ReplyDelete