[pct-l] Bear question.

[Austin Williams]

Less than 20 Grizzlies in the North Cascades.

This is what the Gov't has to say about it at
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/grizzly/    :

*Locations:*  Today, grizzly bear distribution is primarily within but not
limited to the areas identified as Recovery Zones including--the Yellowstone
area in northwest Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and southwest Montana (9,200
square miles (sq mi)) at more than 580 bears; the Northern Continental
Divide Ecosystem of north central Montana (9,600 sq mi) at more than 400
bears; *the North Cascades area of north central Washington (9,500 sq mi) at
less than 20 bears*; the Selkirk Mountains area of northern Idaho, northeast
Washington, and southeast British Columbia (2,200 sq mi) at approximately 40
to 50 bears; and the Cabinet Yaak area of northwest Montana and northern
Idaho (2,600 sq mi) at approximately 30 to 40 bears.  There is an additional
Recovery Zone known as the Bitterroot Recovery Zone in the Bitterroot
Mountains of east central Idaho and western Montana (5,600 sq mi) but this
area does not contain any grizzly bears at this time.  The San Juan
Mountains of Colorado also were identified as an area of possible grizzly
bear occurrence, but no evidence of grizzly bears has been found in the San
Juan Mountains since a bear was killed there in 1979.

--
Austin Williams

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