Great post TeleBoy.. What this special management will be is still up for debate. But the facts are known. National Parks in Canada (Lake Louise, Banff) have the HIGHEST mortality rate for grizzly bears. Why would we knowingly go and do this?
I have questioned many of Wildsight (or Flathead Wild)’s motives many times. They have a "keep it wild" campaign on right now, where they encourage you to:
"Call, email or write British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell and Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.
Let them know that you support a national park in the southeastern one-third of the Flathead, to fill in the missing piece of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, and a Wildlife Management Area in the rest of the valley and adjoining habitat."
Why, oh why would they suggest this? They want to keep the Flathead wild, yet they want a park like Glacier? The only time I have been to Glacier a habituated mountain goat was causing trouble in the "park" as it was licking the salt off of tourists tires. That sure seems "wild" to me… I won’t be back.
Don’t like that example? Have this one… http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-ne … -be-killed
What interests me about the "wild" campaign, is that it goes hand in hand with their "complete it, protect it, connect it" campaign. If you haven’t seen the photos I encourage you to have a look at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= … 2591403771 Just scroll through the pictures and let me know what you think. I think they might have left out the "pave it!" sign for some reason… Because if the Flathead becomes "protected", that is how it will look.
I spent a good number of days in the Flathead this summer, seeing 13 different grizzly bears and 6 vehicles over at least ten days.. If you spent 10 days in Glacier Nat’l Park, you may see one or two grizzlies (maybe?) and at 2,031,348 visitors in 2009 that works out to be about… 13,913 vehicles (generously estimating 4 people per vehicle).
