Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, P.O. Box 168, WY 82190, USA d Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5...

The University of Alberta Press Between 1902 and 1930, Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland spent nearly every summer mapping the mountains of Alberta and British Columbia, climbing many of Canada’s Rocky Mountains for the first time. This unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs to create accurate topographical maps...

Between 1960 and 1998, bears caused 42 serious or fatal human injuries in the Province of Alberta—29 (69%) by grizzly (brown) bears (Ursus arctos) and 13 (31%) by American black bears (U. americanus). Considering Alberta’s estimated bear population—about 1,000 grizzly bears and 38,000–39,000 black bears—these numbers suggest that the grizzly bears are the more dangerous of the 2 species. Seriou...

Human contact with bears has become more frequent, as has the resultant bear maulings and bite injuries. We report the bacteriology of a patient bitten by a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) from the Rocky Mountains foothills area east of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The patient received field care, including metronidazole and cefazolin. Subsequent deep-wound cultures grew Serratia fonticola...

George Aldridge*, David W. Inouye, Jessica R. K. Forrest, William A. Barr and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 519, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA; Department of Biology, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415, USA; Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA; and USA National Phenology Network...

Charles R. Anderson, Jr., Trophy Game Section, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Lander, WY 82520, USA Keith Aune, Research and Technical Services, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Helena, MT 59620, USA Kim Barber, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY 82414, USA Dan Bjornlie, Trophy Game Section, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Lander, WY 82520, ...