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March 15th, 2005
GBOP/Bear Smart door
drops. A huge THANK YOU to the GBOP Community Group
members who helped out with the recent door drops around Skagit and Whatcom
Counties. Over the last two weeks around 650 neighbors received baggies containing
information about GBOP, Bear
Smart , and ways to become involved with the work that we are doing to
promote an increased knowledge of grizzly bears, and simple, practical tips for
living with all bears. To become involved with the GBOP Community Group, or to
help with ongoing information distribution needs, please contact Nan
Laney, or Chris Morgan. Watch this space for a
dedicated GBOP Community Group page - coming soon.
March 2005
Bears making an early
appearance this year. We have had several reports of bears being out
and about in neighborhoods around the Cascades (even as early as mid-February!).
This is a critical time to ensure that non-natural attractants such as garbage,
bird seed, compost, and pet food can not be found by hungry bears. Find tips and
community-specific reports on our Bear Smart page.
Also read about identifying cubs, adults and yearlings.
 March 1st, 2005
Mark your calendars -
Bear Awareness Week activities at Woodland Park Zoo. GBOP and
Woodland Park Zoo will be partnering on some fascinating Bear Awareness Week
activities from May 12th - 15th 2005, including a bear resistant food container
demonstration - by the zoo bears! Mark your calendar and watch this space for
more information!
February 7th, 2005
GBOP takes part in
Eagle Festival. Over the weekend of February 5th and 6th GBOP staff
took part in the annual Eagle Festival in Concrete, WA. In addition to an
information booth, Nan Laney offered a slide presentation about grizzly bears
and the work of GBOP. Some four to five thousand people take part in the
festival each year. Pictures.
January 25th, 2005
GBOP
releases Bear Smart reports. GBOP has released the results of a
preliminary Bear Smart Assessment that was conducted from in December 2003 and
January 2005.
January 17th, 2005
GBOP
poster now available. Thanks to GBOP contributors Woodland
Park Zoo (Seattle); Wild Time Foods
(Grizzlies Brand); Grizzly Industrial;
and Canopy we are happy to announce the
release of the new GBOP poster (13x17 inches). Look out for it in locations near
you! To view an online version of the poster click here
(190kb jpeg).
December 10th, 2004
Grizzly
Industrial, Bellingham, Washington becomes latest GBOP poster contributor. Thank
you to Grizzly Industrial (www.grizzly.com)
who today offered to make a donation towards the new GBOP
poster, which will be available by Christmas. Grizzly Industrial is a national
retail, mail order and internet company providing high quality woodworking and
metalworking machinery and accessories.
December 1st, 2004
GBOP
launches Bear Smart program. Click here for the press
release. More information coming soon.
October 2004
WILDTIME
FOODS, Oregon becomes first GBOP corporate sponsor. Thank
you to WILDTIME FOODS who today offered to make a donation towards the new GBOP
poster, which will be available by Christmas. WILDTIME FOODS produces and
distributes all-natural & organic products such as Granolas, Muesli, Trail
Mixes, Nuts & Berries, under the name “THE GRIZZLIES
BRAND” (www.grizzliesbrand.com).
October 2004
Alexa Spivy begins work
as GBOP's Okanogan County Field Coordinator. Alexa Spivy
joined the GBOP team on September 27th as the new Okanogan County Field
Coordinator. Her work will parallel the activities of Nan Laney (Field
Coordinator for Whatcom and Skagit Counties). Alexa has a BS in Wildlife Science
and lives in Winthrop where she operates an organic produce farm. Welcome aboard
Alexa! Click here for Alexa's contact details.
September 24th, 2004
Plans begin for GBOP's
Bear Smart Community Program. GBOP's Bear Smart Community Program is now
being developed for selected pilot project communities in the North Cascades.
The program will engage community members in a process that educates the public
about minimizing non-natural attractants that can bring black bears/grizzly
bears into conflict with humans. As well as the more obvious attractants such as
garbage and human food, people are sometimes surprised to hear that they also
include compost, apple trees and bird feeders. Watch this space for more
information about Bear Smart.
September 24th, 2004
Defenders of Wildlife
announces continued support for GBOP. Defenders of Wildlife announced this week that it
will be providing a $4000 grant to the GBOP for the development of the Bear
Smart program, and school curriculum products.
This is the second contribution GBOP has received from Defenders, and we are very
grateful for their continued support and encouragement.
August 5th, 2004
Yakima Herald article about
grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades, by Scott Sansbury. Click
here for 146kb pdf file.
July 25th, 2004
GBOP FAQs now Online.
The GBOP FAQ page has now been uploaded and contains a wealth of information
about grizzly bear biology, and recovery. These are some of the "most
frequently asked questions" that we receive during our work at the GBOP. Click
here to go to the FAQ page.
July 22nd, 2004
GBOP Hiring Okanogan
County field coordinator. Click here
for job announcement. Position to begin September 2004.
July 20th, 2004
Woodland Park Zoo
Support Pledged. Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle) announced this week that it
will be providing a $3000 grant to the GBOP under their 2004 Stipend Program.
This is the second contribution GBOP has received from the zoo. We are very
grateful for this continued support and look forward to our continuing
relationship with this world class wildlife conservation and education
organization.
July 15th, 2004
US Fish and Wildlife
Service Support for GBOP Continues. The US Fish and Wildlife Service
(Olympia Office) announced Tuesday that their support for the GBOP will continue
through an additional contribution in 2004. Our thanks to the FWS staff in
Olympia for their continued commitment to our information and education project.
April, 2004
Local Group Plans to
Sue Department
of Interior
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, an environmental advocacy group based in Bellingham,
WA has just served
notice of their intent to sue the Department of Interior "over its
failure to make progress to save the grizzly bear population of Washington’s
North Cascades Ecosystem (NCE) from extinction". For their full press
release, click here.
March, 2004
New "Ranching and
Grizzly Bears" video released
A new video production titled "Ranching and Grizzly Bears" has
just been released by LummiFilm Multimedia and NWEA. The video provides
background information on grizzly bears in the North Cascades and features
ranchers from Montana who live and work in grizzly bear country. GBOP staff will
be showing the video to audiences around the North Cascades as opportunities
arise. For more information please contact Chris
Morgan.
January 26, 2004
British Columbia North
Cascades grizzly bear video clips available (very large mpeg files)
These video clips of an individual grizzly bear were taken in June 2002 east
of Manning Provincial Park less than 20 miles north of the US border, and
Washington's North Cascades National Park.
Clip 1 (3 MB mpeg)
Clip 2 (2.5 MB mpeg)
Clip 3 (1.5 MB mpeg)
January 2004
GBOP study reveals
support for grizzly bear recovery in rural areas of Whatcom and Skagit Counties.
Click here for the January 7th 2004 press release. Click
here for pdf of full report
(500KB). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file.
August 2003
Chesaw grizzly
bear confirmed: Bear hair samples collected from east of Chesaw in
north eastern Okanogan County have been genetically verified as grizzly bear. Click
here for more information, and photographs of field sign taken at the site.
August 5th, 2003
GBOP activities begin in
Skagit and Whatcom Counties: Click here for
more information. If you would like to get involved, please contact the
Whatcom/Skagit Field Coordinator Nan Laney.
August, 2003
North Cascades
grizzly bear recovery zone maps now available online: Click
here for north-eastern and north-western
sections of the recovery zone. Click here for entire recovery
zone.
May
21st, 2003
Biologists verifying
possible grizzly bear sighting in northeast Okanogan County: Click
here for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife press release dated
5.21.03.
October
2002
GBOP
brochure now available: The Grizzly Bear Outreach Project (GBOP)
brochure is now available from several outlets in the communities of Oroville,
Tonasket, Omak, Okanogan, Methow, Carlton, Twisp, Winthrop, and Mazama.
Photograph: Kennan Ward (www.kennanward.com)
GBOP slide presentations: GBOP staff
are available to give slide presentations to organizations, schools, and
community groups in our focus area. The presentations provide information on grizzly bear
behavior, ecology, safety issues, sanitation, and the recovery process. Please
contact us for more information.
GBOP
feedback: We would like to hear about your ideas and thoughts
concerning grizzly bears, the GBOP, and recovery in the North Cascades. The GBOP
website now contains a feedback form for your
convenience (select 'Submit Feedback' on the navigation bar to the left).
Alternatively, if you require immediate attention, please email us directly from
the contact page. We
will look forward to hearing from you.
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