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 Welcome to IGBCOnline! This is a new, interactive website designed to keep the public informed about programs and activities of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee and its local subcommittees.
The new website is user-friendly for easy navigation and includes information about grizzly bear recovery efforts, bear safety techniques, educational programs and opportunities, and research projects, as well as information about local events. We hope you enjoy using this website as it evolves. Please send comments and suggestions to us at igbc@igbconline.org.
Sincerely,
Harv Forsgren
Chair, Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee
Regional Forester, R-4, U.S. Forest Service
 February 13, 2012
To: IGBC I&E Subcommittee Chairs
From: Ellen Davis, IGBC
Subject: 2012 I&E Funding Awarded
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) provided $36,000 again this year for information and education projects that contribute to grizzly bear recovery and conservation.
The reviewing committee (Chris Servheen, Gregg Losinski and Ellen Davis) met via conference call on Friday, February 9, to review the I & E proposals submitted for 2012.
We greatly appreciate the variety of requests that came in and the work being done on the ground for grizzly bears. We received 21 proposals requesting over $75,000 dollars. Attached in a separate document, is the list of proposals and the amount awarded on selected proposals for 2012.
A brief report on the progress of your I&E projects is due by July 15 to Ellen Davis at edavis@fs.fed.us.
Please contact Ellen at 406-329-3434 or Gregg Losinski, IGBC I&E Chair at 208-390-0635 if you have any questions.
Cc:
IGBC Executive Committee
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
Appeals from the United States District Court
for the District of Montana
Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted
March 7, 2011 - Portland, Oregon
Filed November 22, 2011
“The 9th circuit court has rendered a decision,” said Chris Serveen, National Grizzly Bear Habitat Coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“They upheld the district court on white bark pine stating that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not clearly describe how we decided that declines in white bark pine would not be serious for grizzlies.
They OVERTURNED the district court and stated that the adequate regulatory mechanisms in the Yellowstone Conservation Strategy were adequate and sufficient. This is excellent news and upholds the wisdom of our adherence to continuing to implement the Conservation Strategy since the original delisting was overturned. This ruling clearly shows that we need to continue to stick to the Yellowstone Conservation Strategy as the court says it is adequate to manage a delisted population.
We will now begin to develop a new proposed rule that focuses on white bark pine issues and the scientific information on the decline in white bark pine in relation to the recovery of the Yellowstone grizzlies. This will include all the scientific information since the initial proposal to delist in 2007.”
Grizzly Bear
(Ursus arctos horribilis)
5-Year Review:
Summary and Evaluation
205 page PDF document
North Cascades Grizzly Bear Subcommittee
Contact: Doug Zimmer, USFWS 360/753-4370
For Release: July 1, 2011
North Cascades Grizzly Bear Sighting
An inter-agency panel of grizzly bear experts has identified a bear photographed last October in Washington’s North Cascades Mountains as a grizzly bear. This is the first Class 1 report of a grizzly bear in the North Cascades ecosystem since 1996. Class 1 reports are considered verified sightings of a species that include physical evidence such as tracks or a photograph of the animal with a geographically-verifiable background. Although State and Federal agencies have been working to recover the North Cascades’ small native grizzly population for over twenty years and receive multiple reports of possible grizzly bears each year, most turn out to be black bears. Photographs taken by a hiker who encountered the animal are the first known confirmed photos of a living North Cascades grizzly bear in perhaps a half-century.
"IGBC Awards 2011 I&E Dollars”
Bearing it all
Grizzly debate comes with broad implications
by Alex Sakariassen
Missoula Independent March 24, 2011
The fate of the Yellowstone grizzly bear landed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month following nearly two years of legal squabbling over the population's status under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Appellate judges are now considering an appeal of U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's September 2009 decision in Missoula to return the bears to the list of endangered species.
Click on the above link to read the full article.
Bearing down
Experts put an eventful–and sometimes fatal–season of bear activity into perspective
by Erika Fredrickson
Missoula Independent, Sept 30, 2010
Chuck Jonkel learned long ago about the public's deep fascination with bears. Before he switched the focus of his work to the animal in 1959, he saw bears mostly as a nuisance. While working toward his master's degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia, he was dismayed to find black bears ruining his traplines, which he used to catch and study pine martens. But his constant encounters began to intrigue people around him.
Click on the above link to read the full article.
August 3, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Yellowstone Grizzly Bear and Whitebark Pine:
What Science Really Tells Us
The attached white paper is based on data collected over the last twenty four years
within the Yellowstone Ecosystem and addresses the flexible relationship between
the grizzly bears in the Yellowstone Ecosystem and the whitebark pine. This report
was written by the biologists that make up the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study
Team (IGBST), the scientific study and monitoring component of the Interagency
Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC).
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Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists work on tranquilized grizzly bear.
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Warming concerns not enough to keep griz protected
by Sterling Miller
Sterling Miller is a senior wildlife biologist with the National Wildlife Federation, and writes from Missoula.
Missoulian, Friday, January 1, 2010
Opinion - Guest Column
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) was created in 1983 to lead the effort to recover the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states. In June 2008 the IGBC celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Click here or on the above
graphic to read all about it
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