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Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado?
Ghost Grizzlies Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado Author:David Petersen Deep in the wilds of Colorados San Juan Mountains there may still lurk a remnant population of the continents most fearsome mammal: Ursus arctos horribilis. By 1952 it was widely assumed that the grizzly had been extirpated from Colorado. That is, until one September evening in 1979 when a hunting outfitter named Ed Wiseman was attac... more »ked by a four-hundred-pound golden-haired sow. The mauled but alive man (and the dead bear) confirmed what knowledgeable San Juan residents already knew: the Colorado grizzly was no ghost. What has happened since that encounter almost twenty years ago is the subject of this story about the bear and our own species in the wildand what the future may hold for both.« less