Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-31
R,,t.nder Finds that
Mrs. Glacier Grizzly Bears Cub
Weighs Only Is Ounces at Birth

lack bear. roi VIC AAAAo1s 0A'
rall enough to hold in the pain
YOUR hand, are born durial
!. last days of January ant
rly February.
paby grizzly, who by the tim'
is a mature eight-year-ole
nd averaging 500 pounds, be-
rs life at something around II
,nces, and tiny black cub start.
4 toward his eventual 300 OF
pounds weighing about IL
lnees. = ~
Rear Really Gains Weight
This is the greatest known
eight difference between birth
d maturity of any American
inal. Actually the largest griz-
les weigh as much as 900
uads and the blacks, 600.
No feature of Glacier Nation
park is more attractive than
animal life. Rangers contin-
by hear the question, "Where
l see bears?" Nearly all of
20l,145 visitors in 1916 had
IS opportunity, for some of
park's-in color ginger, Gin
mon, brown and 'black-but
still called black bears come
pr Going to the Sun highway.
The parks 100 grizzies-there
about 500 grizzlies left in
United States generally keep
the wilds, and no animal
ks" grizzly.
But this contact with man on
part of the black bear leads
complications, comments A.
Cannavina, Glaciers assis-
\ chief ranger in charge of
estry and wildlife.
few vacationers always ma
e to get bear bites and scrat-
5 by trying to feed or pet the
mails. In 1941 Glacier had a.
L 80 persons injured bv hears
Lookout for the Birdie
study of bear injuries re-
ls 30 per cent as the result
people trying to have their Y
lures taken with bears; Is per
associated with feeding the {
mails, another IL per cent on V
kers to feeding, while a brave
Pr cent bitten while trying to c
the wild animals. @
urrent in the national park is i
ory that unfortunately is ba- a
on actual incidents. It seems e
a mother put her three S
F-old daughter on the back r
big bear, and said "Now you Il
ride him, dearie, but remem- Fl
don't pull his hair"
acier park rangers have q
cult problem keeping vaca- IL
ers from feeding the animals. Ia
visitors don't want to leave Is
bear alone, in spite of war
and fines. One park Off {
said; Living on hand 6
ruins a bear just as it will
roy the character of a man.
Pstomed to getting easy pro. y,
Ter, the bears refuse to for -
Tor themselves, and may :.
H
Starts from the Cradle
lericans have a teddy bear We
pick from the time they fo
selves are tots, for teddy is dr
rugged in the cribs. AS a he
lgster at the zoo, bears and vi,
IAuy cubs, keep children ba
-eyed. 'A'
wonder, Glacier National an
nome of 800 wild black 10
luo king of the wilds" griz- an
mas a bear problem.
Bat now up in Glacier park r,
A9alns, generally in rock -,
around 6,000-foot elevation, ~
grizzlies are coming into a ,
Where snow on the ground =
fses 100 inches, and winds ula
blow 60 miles an hour. For ne'
ys' the tiny naked cubs will !
Even open their eyes, as they ed
near their mothers. At che
f"aat lower elevations, like Ar
rough nests built under bui
lndfans or even under park shi]
Jugs are the new little mo
CUBS, with the same closed Do,
~ naked characteristics. Grs
NJ
mt to See the World var
@ the mother bears yea
aelr cubs emerge from hi. A
uon. Both grizzly and black ano
Will then be the size of E.ve
i eats' weighing around CON,
" nve pounds. Contrary lo.;,
(ep'ed belief, the bears do -
mssent a. scraway, lean,
auce immediately after -.
as from Information. Ex- 10y
~ has been iised I'm hut ~, cuSs