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loading rifles, grizzlies were bolder, and hunters might well 

 hesitate to risk coming to close quarters with them. In the 

 Lake of the Woods region the last grizzly is said to have been 

 shot in 1868. In the last quarter century these bears have 

 slowly diminished in numbers even in national forests. Bailey 

 writes that in 1910 the supervisor of the Siskiyou National 

 Forest reported grizzlies as very scarce; one was said to have 

 been killed in the Yamsay Mountains about 1911, and there 

 were possibly a few in the Mount Pitt section at about that 

 time. In 1924 and 1925, the United States Forest Service 

 reported one grizzly on each of the Cascade and Siskiyou 

 National Forests, and in 1931 two and in 1932 one on the 

 Wallowa Forest, while in 1933 it reported one on the Willam- 

 ette. The last (1939) report of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service does not include it in a game census of the State ; in the 

 State of Washington, however, it gives a surviving remnant 

 of nine. 



At the present time the main population of grizzly bears in 

 the United States outside of Alaska centers in the Rocky 

 Mountain region in the States of Wyoming and Montana. 

 This is partly a result of their protection from usual hunting 

 in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, though others 

 apparently frequent the wilder parts of these States. In the 

 Yellowstone Park some grizzlies even come to the garbage 

 piles near the hotel, but in Glacier Park, writes Vernon Bailey 

 (1918), few have learned to do this, but most of them are shy 

 and live in the less frequented portions of the park. A few 

 are killed around the edges of the park annually. At times, 

 too, the forest ranger in these parks finds it necessary to elimi- 

 nate a particular grizzly that has developed troublesome ways. 

 According to the 1939 census issued by the U. S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service (in December, 1940) the following estimates 

 of the grizzly-bear population by States give at least an ap- 

 proximation of its present status: Arizona, 7; Colorado, 10; 

 Idaho, 44; Montana, 620; New Mexico, 3; Washington, 9; 

 Wyoming, 480. There is thus an estimated total of approxi- 

 mately 1,100 grizzlies in the United States, excluding Alaska. 



Northward of the United States, grizzly bears are not un- 

 common in the Rocky Mountain region of British Columbia 

 and Alaska. Cowan (1939) writes that they are now restricted 

 to the mountainous parts of the country and are fairly com- 



