Grizzly Quotes

You have to remember that about half of all grizzly bear deaths are management removals. - Chuck Schwartz

While we salute and celebrate this progress, we cannot afford to gamble with the bears' future. The Yellowstone grizzly bear is an irreplaceable part of America's natural heritage, an icon of all that is wild and free. - Carl Pope

When you're in grizzly country, you're in the wildest country we have left in North America. When there's a healthy population of bears, it's an indication that the ecosystem is healthy. That country is going to be wild. It's going to be as pristine as it can be in the modern age. - Jim Cole

When I look at the mountains here in Colorado they're so beautiful. You have potential habitat everywhere, but there aren't any bears. It's not grizzly country any more. The last grizzly in Colorado was killed by a bow-hunter in 1979. - Jim Cole

What we know... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close encounter with a sow grizzly bear and two cubs. They did sustain bear bites, they dropped and rolled to avoid the attack, and they fell 30 feet down an embankment. - Amy Vanderbilt

We have developed a detailed management and monitoring plan ... and it will continue for the long term. It contains strict limits on mortality, strict habitat standards, and a comprehensive monitoring system for the bears, bear habitat, and bear foods. The future of the Yellowstone grizzly bears is bright, and I say that as a grizzly bear biologist. - Chris Servheen

We could turn what has been a success and the Yellowstone grizzly is a success into something with a different ending with neglect. - Louisa Willcox

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. - Joel Edgerton

This is still the most insidious threat to our wildlife ... You can talk about wolves and grizzly bears, but this disease scares me for a variety of reasons. - Bill Williams

This great icon of the American West now has a promising future. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will see grizzly bears roaming in mountains, forests and rivers in the Yellowstone area. - Gale Norton