Bear Management in the Rocky Mountain National Parks © Parks Canada

Across Boundaries


Southern boundary of Yoho National Park and northern end of Kootenay National Park and provincial lands in British Columbia (Beaverfoot Valley).
Southern boundary of Yoho National Park
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Eastern boundary of Banff National Park with provincial lands in Alberta. Lower left-hand corner of this image is the area covered in the Yoho/Kootenay/British Columbia image.
Eastern boundary of Banff National Park
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Alberta’s Sustainable Resource Development web site provides in-depth information the characteristics, history, behaviour and management of black and grizzly bears in the province.

British Columbia Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy
The province of British Columbia supports one of the largest populations of Black Bears (Ursus americanus) and the second largest population of Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos horribilus) in North America.

Polar Bears International
Polar bears are Canada's third bear species and live in the circumpolar north far from the mountain national parks. They likely evolved from an isolated population of grizzly bears 100,000 to 250,000 years ago in an area near Siberia, making them the most recent of the world's eight bear species. Polar bears and the Arctic ecosystem on which they rely, show there are no boundaries with respect to climate change.


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