[pct-l] Grizzly

["The Weathercarrot" <weathercarrot@hotmail.com>]

>If you see a Grizzle on the PCT please get a picture of it.  I am sure 
a Forrest Ranger would love to see your picture because Grizzley's are 
suppose to be extinct in the lower 48 except for maybe in Glacier 
National Park<

Grizzlies are somewhat more widespread than that. Their densest 
population in the lower 48 is in Glacier National Park, but they're also 
found throughout much of the western Montana/Idaho rockies, and south 
into the Wind River Range of Wyoming. Yes, their numbers in those areas 
are far fewer than the park, but they are still there. Then you have the 
debate over their existence in southern Colorado's San Juan Mountains 
(similar to the eastern cougar debate). Personally I think they're 
probably there. Finally there is the Washington presence. The latest 
I've heard is that they haven't been seen in the Cascades, but there are 
enough signs to indicate perhaps 20 south of the Canadian border. On the 
other end of the state, where the rockies poke into the far northeast 
corner, a grizzly was shot in mid-september. It was considered to be 
from a population seperate from the smaller Cascades one.

wc



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