Grizzly Bear

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is warning that black bears and grizzly bears are increasingly active in lower elevations around Cody. The game department is reminding landowners and outdoor enthusiast to avoid conflicts with bears.

DRIGGS, Idaho (AP) — A 3-year-old female grizzly bear was trapped and euthanized after being caught raiding garbage cans on the Idaho-Wyoming border.

The Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee on Grizzly Bear Management meets this week in Teton Village near Jackson. The subcommittee is a part of the larger Interagency Grizzly Bear Team. During the meeting this Wednesday and Thursday wildlife officials will look at, amongst other issues, methods for counting the bear population as it moves toward recovery.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Scientists will begin trapping grizzly bears south of Meeteetse as part of an ongoing study of the bears across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Billings Gazette reports Monday (http://bit.ly/IVmM1u ) that scientists will capture the bears with snares and culvert traps...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Officials at Grand Teton National Park say bears are ending their winter hibernation and park visitors should be alert for their presence. Recent bear sightings and discovery of bear tracks shows that they’ve been wandering around the park and nearby areas, in northwestern Wyoming...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — One of the best known grizzlies in Grand Teton National Park has postponed her hibernation by more than a month this winter. Grizzly 399 and her two cubs were spotted Monday near Pilgrim Creek, possibly headed to her den...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has trapped and relocated a grizzly bear from a ranch north of Cody. The game department trapped a bear Nov. 10 east of the Absaroka Front, north of Cody. The bear was released north of Moran, in an area that’s already occupied by grizzly bears...

(courtesy of Getty Images) This summer Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area was hampered by several different incidents with grizzly bears. Grizzlies were also attributed to two deaths this summer at the Nation's first national park. Although grizzly bears have been an issue this year researchers state that the number of grizzlies in and around Yellowstone is down slightly from last