Replanting to aid Glacier's grizzlies: scientists plant whitebark pine to provide future bear food. (Wildlife Management).(Brief Article)

From: National Parks | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Daerr, Elizabeth G. | Copyright information

GLACIER N. P., MONT.--Grizzlies love seeds. And Glacier ecologist Tara Williams plans to produce enough seed-bearing trees to augment food supplies for the region's grizzly bears for at least the next hundred years.

Williams and her crew have begun planting whitebark pine saplings in patches of recently burned subalpine forest in hopes of providing a sustainable food source for grizzlies. The intent is to keep the animals in the high country, away from human garbage cans...

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