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Originally Posted by Weitz
Google does say there are 55,000 grizzlies in north America. But your points do stand.
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Dunno how I got to those numbers, googled too quickly. Anyways, my point is that their population is not artificially inflated, there are actually way less than there were historically.
Let's try numbers again, in Alberta we have maybe 900 grizzlies (of all ages) and it's said we need 1,000 mature bears to support a healthy population. To have ~1,000 mature grizzlies we need ~2,000 grizzlies according to Alberta Environment Parks.
Sure, maybe some bears were missed in the count but by no means is the population artificially high or is it time to cull.