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Originally Posted by lannie
I'm in the Crowsnest Pass and it is Grizzly habitat. I am very sure there are many more black bears than grizzly here. For that ELk study to not find a single mortality from black bears is just surprising...that's all.
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I was wondering about that too. There are Grizzly here, not a whole lot but then from what I hear there aren't a whole lot anywhere.
Nevertheless, there are Grizzly here and we have more Black Bears then most would like.
Another interesting thing. I am at present reading a paper concerning a study done at the YaHa Tinda and it seems that that study only looked at adult Elk mortality.
I have not seen anything to indicate that a Black Bear could take a Adult Elk although I suppose that under some circumstances it may be possible.
I also looked a Grizzly and Black bear populations in Jasper and Banff parks.
As near as I could find, there are very high Black Bear populations in both parks and some of the highest Grizzly populations in North America.
I need to do more research to see if this is indeed true.