What is this blog about?

Over the next century Grizzly bear populations could decrease due to indirect impacts through food availability.  The purpose of this blog is to focus on the climatic effects on the Grizzly bear population in Yellowstone National Park.  Over the past century, temperature have been rising significantly faster than previously seen.   These increase in temperatures might not affect the Grizzly bears directly in terms of staying alive, but they can and are indirectly impacting them.  Their primary food sources have been shrinking in quantity due to these minor increases in temperature, while there may still be other possible ways for the Grizzly bears to survive using other sources, those too may be impacted eventually. Another issue revolving around this species is that they hibernate during the cold winter months.  With this, there runs the risk of trophic mismatch. [14]

People might wonder why it is important to save the Grizzly bears.  To this I would say it is out of pure morals.  Do they deserve to be here any less than we do?  Seeing as we (as a species) have already taken away the majority of their original habitat, shouldn't we try to prevent the extinction of this magnificent species while they are still here? [3] There might not be a beneficial money making endeavor in regards to the saving of this species, however I fail to see any benefit of allowing the species to be wiped out as well. 

This Grizzly bear finds this situation to be ridiculous. [18]

I chose this topic due to my previous experience in living in Montana, seeing the natural world without obvious visible influences from anthropogenic impacts.  Seeing this animal lose its habitat due to the influence of people makes me realize how much anything we do is able to affect many different organisms throughout the world.