The Bear Necessities : Bear Attacks in Glacier National Park 🐻

A non fatal encounter yesterday and a fatal attack a few weeks ago. 

The Bear Necessities

Instapundit: No bear spray allowed in California and don't bet your life on bear spray

CBS News: Fatal bear attack at Glacier National Park

MSN: Close call at Glacier

Given the recent bear attacks at Glacier, eat them before they eat you! 🐻

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 30, 2026

Song of Nature : Ralph Waldo Emerson : Glacier National Park

9 September 1836 : Emerson's Nature

AoSHQ: Morning Report 09.09.25

What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? Kristin Poinar

Kristin Poinar

I am very skeptical about global warming, not that I don't think there has been some warming--there has been, at least a few decades back. Just that the warming trend has flattened out in recent years. Many of the proponents of climate change seem more concerned with posturing and making money off it, than actually changing their behavior.  

Still, I am all for study on what is going on with glaciers around the planet. Provided it is objective.

Rush Limbaugh: Flashback 2008: What ABC predicted for 2015 and Left wing fail at Glacier National Park

Watts Up With That?: Glacier N.P. quietly removing signs and Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier slows

Legal Insurrection: Glacier N.P. starts removing its "Gone by 2020" signs

EBL: Soylent Green NYC 2020 predictions

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.13.19

If All You See and 90 Miles From Tyranny

If All You See and Ice Age Now

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Goodstuff's: 219th ed

Woodsterman: Rule 5

AoSHQ: Tariff-ic Win

Lem's Place: Gibson's Jury

American Power: D-Day 75th

Proof Positive: Best of the Web

Hogewash: An Uninsured Loss?

Mark Steyn: The Key To Acting

Right Way: Rule 5 Link-O-Rama

Animal Magnetism: Saturday Gingermageddon

Political Clown Parade: Flowing Curves of Beauty

Diogenes Middle Finger News: A Good Monday Morning

357 Magnum: Saturday Links and Even in LA: Enough is Enough

The Pirates Cove: If All You See and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Camp of the Saints: Laura Rosen Cohen and Leon Redbone RIP at 127

A View From The Beach: Victoria Justice, Pop the tequila, and Hero Bill Barr

Feral Irishman: Like It Wouldn't Be One Of The Three and A Little Sexy By Request

Knuckledraggin My Life Away: I’m sure she’s taken, men and I’ll leave you with this

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

TOM: Hermione Granger At The Marco Polo Bridge, In The Mailbox: 06.14.19, Corporate Censorship: A Short History of the Social Media Thought Police Regime, In The Mailbox: 06.13.19, Maximum Punitive Damages: Jury Rains Fire and Brimstone on Oberlin College, Women’s Anti-American Soccer Team, Oberlin President Says College’s Deficit Is ‘Unsustainable … We Will Not Exist’, In The Mailbox: 06.12.19, Can Republicans Stop Losing Long Enough for the Left to Destroy Itself?, In The Mailbox: 06.11.19,  Democrats and Whores, NY Times Advocates Censorship by Reporting on ‘Far Right’ YouTube, In The Mailbox: 06.10.19, Fact-Based Argument Is Denounced as ‘Common Right Wing Talking Point’, Math Is Hard, President Trump ‘Should Be in Jail,’ Says Progressive Journalist Now Under Arrest, In The Mailbox: 06.07.19, WOW! Ohio Jury Delivers $11 Million Verdict Against Oberlin College, How Much Do I Love Bill Barr?

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and glaciology: 

TOTUS

Egotastic

Dust bury

HeroPress

Hogewash

Theo Spark

Daily Gator

O.K. Corral

Daily Caller

Wired Right

Pirate's Cove

Woodsterman

Proof Positive

DryBonesBlog

The Right Way

RULE 5 SITES

Blazing Cat Fur

MissK's World...

By Other Means

American Power

Irons In The Fire

Guns and Bikinis

SayanythingBlog

Raconteur Report

Doubletroubletwo

Angrymikes hood

The Last Tradition

Adrienne's Corner

The Feral Irishman

Camp of the Saints

Animal Magnatism

Maggie's Notebook

The Classic Liberal

The Rio Norte Line

Randy's Roundtable

A Nod To The Gods

Small Dead Animals

Grouchy Old Cripple

Raised On Hoe Cakes

My Muse Shanked Me

Political Clown Parade

24 Femmes Per Second

The Vulgar Curmudgeon

A View From The Beach

Diogenes' Middle Finger

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

Old Retired Petty Officer

Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Knuckledraggin My Life Away

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

Glacier National Park's Going To The Sun Road needs some spring cleaning to be ready for summer...

Flathead Beacon: Snow Clearing Has Been Going On Since March

Some of these pictures are from past years, but if you have ever traveled this road you can get an idea of just how daunting a task this is every season.

A Steam Shovel Back When They First Constructed The Road

Shedding his winter coat

Mountain goats waiting for tourists to arrive

Where to find Grizzly Bears in the Lower 48

Sow bear with cub, which is a bear you really don't want to surprise...

With the recent story of an 11 year old boy defending himself and his family from charging grizzly bear in Alaska, you might want to avoid bears. Stories like that make people want to see bears more.

The best opportunity to see wild grizzly bears in the lower 48 is either in or around Glacier National Park in Northern Montana or in or around Yellowstone in Wyoming.  While it is not at all guaranteed to see grizzlies at either park, both parks have a relatively high population of grizzly bears and the bears in those parks (while still potentially very dangerous) are accustomed to humans being around.  There are also lots of black bears in both those parks. 

Grizzly Bears in Lower 48

Black Bear or Grizzly? Grizzly Being mistaken for a black bear is dangerous for grizzlies.  

Bear Identification

I'm your huckleberry...bears loves berries

You can always go to Alaska to see grizzlies too.

Grizzly bears are the same species as the Eurasian brown bear. Brown bears, wolves and lynx are doing surprising well in Europe (amazing given, with the exception of Scandinavia, the human population densities are so much higher than the Western U.S. and Canada). Bears, wolves and boars in Italy do face challenges, such as bears being in isolated pockets.  Similar issues are in Spain.

The eight species of bears in the world

Instapundit: One tree, 365 days (same tree in Italy I linked immediately above), Professional runner beats pair of bears (the safe bet is alway go hiking with a buddy, and make sure he or she is not as fast as you are)

CBC News: Oh Canada: The fight to save Bear 148 I know they mean well, but if you really want bears (as a species) to be able to survive in proximity with human beings, you need to be able to cull individual bears who become a problem with human beings.  

Rupture of Glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina January 2013

Pretty amazing video of a glacier/ice bridge calving in Argentina.  This particular glacier moves back and forth, periodically bisecting the lake in the video.

A this glacier is a smaller version of the ice dam that once existed in what is now Idaho/Montana.  Now consider what it must have looked like when that ice dam on the Lower Clark Fork burst and released in a matter of days a great lake equivalent volume of water into the Columbia River drainage.  

Word of the Day: Jökulhlaups

Jökulhlaups  (jökull = glacier, hlaup = floodburst)

I love how English can just adopt a good word (tsunami comes to mind).