Grizzlies in the Pryors

[Elky Welky]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this now is the easternmost sighting of a grizzly in the country since they were mostly extirpated at the end of the 19th century. How soon do you all think before they make it back into the Black Hills? I wonder if this will have any effect on the wild horses in the Pryors.


https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-new...ential grizzly,mountains since the late 1800s.

 

[BuckRut]

He is definitely way out there. I wonder if there are 2 of them though.

 

[mtnkid85]

Theres been fairly steady sightings for the last 2-3 years in that country. It would be super fascinating to get a collar on him to track his movement and see if it has been denning in there thru winter.

 

[JT88]

I wonder if this will have any effect on the wild horses in the Pryors.

I heard grizzlies don't eat spanish cuisine

 

[Elky Welky]

Theres been fairly steady sightings for the last 2-3 years in that country. It would be super fascinating to get a collar on him to track his movement and see if it has been denning in there thru winter.

I'd love to know too. Depending on where he is, that country down there (particularly the south end) gets pretty desert-like. It's one of the few places I've been in MT that seems mostly inhabited by lizards, hawks, coyotes, cactus, and rattlesnakes. It's cool country, but never struck me as prime griz habitat.

And no surprise, as is always the case, department sanctioned "official" sightings happen a few years after locals know they are there.

 

[Nameless Range]

I think it is awesome. Just another data point -albeit not much of one - in favor of state management of the griz, expansion of the distribution of our most spiritual beings on the landscape, and exposes the whiny "westerners" who will now flee to the internet proclaiming their children are in danger.

 

[seeth07]

I think it is awesome. Just another data point -albeit not much of one - in favor of state management of the griz, expansion of the distribution of our most spiritual beings on the landscape, and exposes the whiny "westerners" who will now flee to the internet proclaiming their children are in danger.

it would be great if grizzlies would just adapt like the mule deer have to just live right in peoples yards - you know where they are safe from hunters, get free food and water and can pose for photos with smirks on their faces. I wonder how many pets and children would become part of their diet? Do you think perspective of Grizzly management would change?

 

[Ben Long]

it would be great if grizzlies would just adapt like the mule deer have to just live right in peoples yards - you know where they are safe from hunters, get free food and water and can pose for photos with smirks on their faces. I wonder how many pets and children would become part of their diet? Do you think perspective of Grizzly management would change?

This experiment is happening right now in NW Montana. Bears live very close to people and much of the time people are unaware. Remains to be seen how sustainable it is.

 

[seeth07]

This experiment is happening right now in NW Montana. Bears live very close to people and much of the time people are unaware. Remains to be seen how sustainable it is.

Even the grizzly man got eaten

 

[Ben Lamb]

it would be great if grizzlies would just adapt like the mule deer have to just live right in peoples yards - you know where they are safe from hunters, get free food and water and can pose for photos with smirks on their faces. I wonder how many pets and children would become part of their diet? Do you think perspective of Grizzly management would change?

Choteau, Augusta, Bynum, Depuyer all deal with this as well.

Hell, Ephraim, the 873 pound Boar that lives in the creek next to the school in Depuyer lets the kids ride him in exchange for fruit snacks.

Just don't forget the fruit snacks.

 

[JLS]

Pretty big jump from the Pryors to Black Hills. I’m sure it’ll happen, but it’ll take a while. Won’t be too long for the Big Horns.

 

[Schaaf]

Pretty big jump from the Pryors to Black Hills. I’m sure it’ll happen, but it’ll take a while. Won’t be too long for the Big Horns.

Things could have changed since I spent some time mapping the Pryors but I don’t remember too much red meat roaming around that area for him. The Big Horns is my guess.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Things could have changed since I spent some time mapping the Pryors but I don’t remember too much red meat roaming around that area for him. The Big Horns is my guess.

I'd pay good money to watch a Grizz take down a feral horse though.

 

[HighDesertSage]

Maybe I am a dumbass (highly probable), but I don't understand why this is a big deal? There is piles of them near Cody and Red Lodge, I would have naturally assumed they are there? Same with Heart Mtn North of Cody.

 

[Schaaf]

I'd pay good money to watch a Grizz take down a feral horse though.

Fighting back against European colonization. American as apple pie.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Fighting back against European colonization. American as apple pie.

Take that, liberal women who love feral horses!

 

[seeth07]

Take that, liberal women who love feral horses!

That woman is handed a gun and told she either has to shoot the griz or the horse is going to die. What does she do? An animal lovers nightmare

 

[JLS]

Maybe I am a dumbass (highly probable), but I don't understand why this is a big deal? There is piles of them near Cody and Red Lodge, I would have naturally assumed they are there? Same with Heart Mtn North of Cody.

They are relatively slow to colonize new areas. Transient bears are always a precursor to a novel population.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Transient bears are always a precursor to a novel population.

I saw this band open up for the Indigo Girls & Tori Amos at the "Red Rocks Celebrates Wommynn" in 1997.

 

[JT88]

Won’t be too long for the Big Horns.

I was pretty convinced I had one in my binos two summers ago but didn't investigate