PRESERVING GRIZZLY BEARS AND WOLVES

Preserving Healthy Populations of Grizzly Bears and Wolves

Preserving Healthy Populations of Grizzly Bears and Wolves

Introduction

There should be areas kept natural - but humans are natural to the earth as well. so i would think that preserving a place for existence is good, even if a human never actually sees one, there still needs to be human existence that enters even on a small level. Because, why invest in something that you could potentially maintain longer will a little observation (what if a disaster occurs, and you could further preserve they are by knowing?)

Preserving Healthy Populations of Grizzly Bears and Wolves

Many residents of the United States and Canada now go out of their way to protect wolves, those evil tricksters, even importing them into national parks where hunters had wiped them out. Recent studies show that many North Americans-particularly people who don't live near the animals' habitats-support measures designed to encourage the long-term survival of wolves and other large predators, Stephen R. Kellert of Yale University and his colleagues assert. Although grizzly bears still strike fear in the hearts of most people, the woods are full of hikers and campers who hope to catch a distant glimpse of the huge beasts. Their tourism dollars generate goodwill toward the animals among people in rural communities. Although mountain lions pose a greater threat to humans than wolves do and require more room to roam and hunt than grizzlies, the general population has little awareness of them, Kellert's group finds.

Over the last century, the number of large carnivores has declined sharply in North America. Although many people now want to protect these animals, their populations are not rebounding. Development and roads have encroached on their habitat and put hunters closer to their prey. In much of the Rocky Mountains, ...