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BROWN BEARS

Human is a major threat to brown bears,as our population grows, we encroach on bear habitat, driving them further into ever shrinking wilderness. Humans have become the single biggest threat to all wild animals.

Bears are the largest land based carnivores on the planet. However, due to their varied diet they are better characterized as omnivores. Typically, a grizzly bear's diet in the Columbia Mountains consists of less than 15% meat. The remainder is roots, herbs, berries, and insects.

Locally, grizzlies make extensive use of avalanche chutes in search of foods such as sedges, grasses, cow parsnip and various bulb-producing flowers. Aided by their long front claws and massive shoulder muscles, they rototill beds of glacier lilies and spring beauty to harvest the nutritious bulbs, and they excavate fat and protein-rich Columbian ground squirrels from their burrows. In mid-summer, grizzlies often move to huckleberry patches in burned over forests to fatten on a diet rich in carbohydrates to prepare for winter.Killing a grizzly bear in the lower 48 States in america is both a federal and state offense that can bring criminal and civil penalties of up to $50,000 and a year in jail.

Now many organisations are helping brown bears and will never let them be extinct.We can help too by donating money to organisations that help bears. We can play a part to ensure the future of the bears. We human created all these problems we must solve it too.