HABITAT: Grizzlies are highly adaptable and flourish in high mountain forests, subalpine meadows, arctic tundra, wetlands, grasslands, mixed-conifer forests and coastal areas. RANGE: Grizzly bears are ...

which began in 1915 when grizzly numbers were already greatly diminished throughout the mountains of the West, eliminated bears from much of their remaining habitat. In 1975, when they'd been wiped ...

Grizzly bears are solitary animals. Individual bears have a home range, but these may overlap and are not fiercely defended. Their habitat can range from dense forest to alpine meadow to Arctic tundra ...