Resource: Bears' Lunch Counter
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QuickTime Video
Length: 4m 19s
Size: 12.1 MB
As a result of human activities, the grizzly bear population of North America has plummeted over the last 100 years. Yellowstone National Park, one of their last remaining habitats, failed to keep the grizzlies safe from human interference and further endangered the species. This video segment from Nature examines the history of human and grizzly bear interaction at Yellowstone.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, Bears' Lunch Counter, published November 18, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nat08.living.eco.humimp.bearslunch/
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Print Background EssayGrizzly bears were once scarce in Yellowstone National Park and on their way to extinction. After becoming designated as an Endangered Species over three decades ago, governmental protections have allowed these natural predators to make a comeback. But the grizzly’s success has come at a destructive and often dangerous price for people living nearby. This segment from the Nature episode “The Good, The Bad and the Grizzly” examines how human exploitation endangered the grizzlies in the first place, how human intervention helped restore their numbers, and how delicately humans coexist with the resurgent grizzlies today.
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K-12 Subject:
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Source: Nature: "The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly"
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Major corporate support for the Nature collection was provided by Canon U.S.A. and SC Johnson. Additional support was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the nation’s public television stations.