Grizzly bears are hard to count ... tracing the intricate migrations of Yellowstone elk. My guide this time was Wes Livingston, Lee’s brother, another backcountry horseman who grew up in ...
Yellowstone is dense with carnivores. A 2023 study showed the park’s Northern Range contained the highest densities of black bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, 20 bears every 62 square miles.
Five weeks before that, two bowhunters looking for elk north of West Yellowstone shot and killed a charging female grizzly bear, then wounded a juvenile grizzly that also came at them. Get any of our ...
Yellowstone is also one of the few areas where black bears coexist with grizzlies. Large populations of migratory elk and bison also inhabit the Northern Range, along with lesser numbers of deer ...
At least 28 years old, the bear was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly in the Yellowstone ecosystem. She gained notoriety as each spring, wildlife enthusiasts awaited her emergence from ...
She was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. At one point, she was seen with four cubs at one time, a rarity for her species. She had birthed 18 ...