JACKSMYDOG
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Start of third para "Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw First Nations Reserve in 2001 and one in the Sayward Valley in 2006, grizzly bears continue to be sighted in the North Island area. “To date, there is no evidence to support an established population of grizzly bears on Vancouver Island”(pers. comm. Tony Hamilton, 2009).
But, I didn’t have enough tryptophan in my blood stream earlier today so I was a little foggy.
If it looks like bear scatt, smells like bear scatt, it must be bear scatt, just don’t eat it.
It might contain mushrooms of questionable variety.
And if you are looking for the official results about GB sightings on Northern Vancouver Island you can contact the Band Office in Port Hardy and ask them for more info or the CO's in Campbell River who hauled the 3 year old down to Nanaimo for the necropsy results.
You will find at least one of those bears died of a .303 British round at close range.
Rob
If the local common vernacular is to call all brown coloured bears as Grizzly Bears, then a news report regurgitating what the locals claim as Grizzly is not all that useful. Lets not forget how often news sources refer to any rifle, as an assault weapon. Their lack of accuracy does not end in firearms articles. Their goal is to pump the article out first, check facts later, then publish retractions if needed.
Maybe it was a Grizzly, maybe it was a Brown. I do find it odd that Brown Bears are common on the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska (and depending on the source even in BC) but Canada has no mention of them? This negates any value in checking with the Port hardy Band Office, or MNR to ask of their official findings, unless either acknowledges there are Brown Bears in Canada.
Most reference separate them mostly by their region, that Grizzlies do not have a maritime food source available, and are inland animals. The plentiful, and higher protein maritime diet cause Browns to be larger and slightly less aggressive. Aside from diet and location they are essentially the same animal, or were the same animal and are still very closely related.
It is a small distinction much like Kodiak Bears are Brown Bears, that are specifically from Kodiak Island. Again the same basic species as the common Brown Bear, but even larger, and a little less aggressive (mostly accredited to their even more plentiful food sources, and extremely high content of maritime protein).