* CONSERVATION METASTRATEGY: A broad scale approach to managing for sustained viability of wildlife populations -- focusing on bears as a model for other species.
* SMOKEY & MIRRORS: The War Between Science & Pseudoscience in Grizzly Bear Conservation: Although advocates of delisting grizzly bears -- removing them from Endangered Species Act protection -- argued that science proves that the Yellowstone population has recovered, independent analyses indicate that risk of inviability is still very high. Although the government-funded/controlled science on Yellowstone bears is high quality tactically, it is very poor strategically. For strategies have been governed by political correctness. This article exposes the corruption.
* YELLOWSTONE GRIZZLIES Had this population really “recovered” before it lost protection under the Endangered Species Act? In other words, was the population’s viability no longer at risk over the foreseeable future?
* FEEDING BEARS: Situations Where It Increases Risk For Bears And People Vs. Those Where It Reduces Risk
* PERSECUTION AND PROSECUTION OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE FED AND BEFRIENDED BEARS
o Oregon: Karen Noyes
o Alaska: Charley Vandergaw
o Minnesota: Lynn Rogers
* HARDROCK MINING ON ALASKA’S SEA COASTS
o Water Quality Standards: Are Alaska’s standards sufficient to protect salmon downstream from mines?
o Pebble Gold Mine: Gold and other heavy metals (at the head of the Alaska Peninsula, near Bristol Bay)
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* CRITICAL HABITAT: How do we assess a population’s habitat needs? How can we meet those needs? How does meeting needs differ between robust vs. high-risk species or populations?
* POLAR BEARS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Whether or not current climate changes are due primarily to human pollutants (e.g., greenhouse gasses), it could seriously impact polar bears. What measures can be taken without devastating economic impacts?
* BEAR HUNTING: Bear-hunting advocates claim that human safety depends on keeping bears afraid of humans. Yet, fear provokes defensiveness, which is the primary cause of attacks on people (by grizzly bears). So increasing fear may actually backfire. Hunting impacts could be as much of a problem for Alaskan grizzlly/brown bears as for those in the Rocky Mountains.
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