"... I do not want to make my children scared of them..." Lady, you BETTER make them scared of them. Nothing cuddly or fun about them. Have respect and natural fear.

Great story, good job grandma irene. This is their land.

ive seen what a bear can do .i have nightmares thinking about it.

😳 at the bear who was reaching in with his feet sticking out the back. Worried that thing was gonna slam down like a guillotine. Great funny footage of all the different animals that show up.

So wonderful to see a return of grizzlies.

This is an awesome story. The Bear is my animal spirit so I really enjoy hearing the success story, and the support of all the understanding and caring people involved. God bless you all...and take care of the bears.

Here in northwest Wyoming the bears have recovered. Now they are spreading out and coming into conflict with people: raiding orchards around Cody, livestock in the Green River area, etc. They have been seen within a short hike of my pasture in the Snake River Range for the first time in over fifty years. Every plan for the Wyoming Game and Fish to manage their population results in a lawsuit. Currently the management plan has been ruined. There are, I think, FOUR lawsuits pending. This is what will happen in the Cascades if the bears are reintroduced. Your lives will be managed by rich city folks, the Sierra Club, and federal judges.

8:34 That Bear looks like a Dog. Those Beasts are amazing, but you best keep your distance. Mad respect for these animals. 😳

I don't know how I ended up here buy boy I'm so glad I did. Such a great episode and I hope the Grizzlies continue to thrive there.

I was a wrangler at a guest ranch when a grizzly bear came through the ranch one Sunday morning, heading north. 1993. Verified by the forest service. Near Cle Elam WA.

They are far from extinct!

Imagine how uncomfortable the radio collar is for the bear.

Holy Moly, your 'release site' is my camping grounds.

What an inspirational project and educational video well made. Let's hope the National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and National Monuments will be protected from the onslaught and detrimental plans of the current U. S. government to open these last remaining natural habitats and pristine wildernesses to unnecessary dirty, destructive, reckless, all destroying industries, such as mining, fracking, leasings, privatizations, and land developments. Let's come and work together to save America's heritage, our country's wild spaces and untamed creatures, fauna, and flora in their most diversity and beauty for the better of man and all of our future.

Saw good bye to your deer population

Thank you for sharing this video, queens ny

Amazing!! So beautiful what you’ve made, make many more!!! We need hope in this world 🌍. Peace be with everyone 🦋✨

That's great that Irene's bloodline is living on. Long Live The Grizzlies.

I think bears are awesome and I love watching videos of them. Certainly the grizzlies. But we cannot forget that these are apex predators. Like someone else already commented. The cascades are already filling up with humans and to introduce more top predators into the area is asking for trouble for both humans and the poor animals that will be killed once they become a nuisance.

Way to go Irene! This is your doing! Along with the team working alongside ya! Rest peacefully!

Great story. Good luck with the project

Fleeting glimpses is enough for me.

Nice, thank you for sharing. :-)

Thank you!❤

Don’t think I’ll plan a camping trip in the Cabinet Mountains.

Awesome story.....

Glad they decided to not reintroduce then here in wa. I have come across many black bears that simply ran away from me. Not the same situation with grizzlys. Screw that.

Loving and kind people all over the world need you

I noticed you didn’t interview mini ranchers when asked if they want Grizzlies to come back. The people that live with these fluffy cuddle little animals don’t think they’re so fluffy or kind.

Love this. Thank you.

This video sales pitch for releasing Grizzly Bears in Washington state claims that most people want the bear population restored, but the IDEA of living with bears is not the same as LIVING with bears. Most of Washington's population lives in the Puget Sound area and holds political sway over the rest of the state, including decisions about the reality of Grizzly Bear population restoration in the North Cascades. Unfortunately, people living close to the bears' range are comparatively few in number and wield little or no political power. However, their kids do have to catch school buses in the dark and their kids will have to be at risk of encountering a Grizzly while going about other normal activities, as will all others living in the region. That is the reality of ACTUALLY living with bears. It is too bad that a more fair way to decide where bears should be released is not possible. The process would be to poll each community and those that want bears get them. If, for example, a majority of Bellevue's citizens approved releasing Grizzlies then satisfy their IDEA of living with bears by releasing some in Bellevue for their pleasure and edification. Of course, that notion is ridiculous for obvious reasons, but is it less ridiculous for people living hundreds of miles away to approve inflicting a potentially lethal hazard on folks who basically have no say in the matter? Why is this necessary? Who really benefits and in what way? Or is all of this in support of the IDEA of wildness and nature to be enjoyed through the window of a safe, warm SUV?

That's great. Love hearing about this. Please make more videos of Grizzlies...Thanks

Beautiful lovely to see!!!💖💖💖😉

Beautiful 💕

The Bears in Chicago have bounced back, too. 10-5 and on top of their division.

In Alaska we carry high powered rifles and big handguns-people still get mauled and eaten.

Majestic creatures, yes, but they have to also remember that grizzly bears are extremely dangerous.

Beautiful awesomeness!! ❤️ made me cry. I hope they succeed!

thx you so much for bringing back these beings back into our reality, we must protect our lands of forrest and water, here is something you do'nt know , if the forrest vanishes not only your oxygen would vanish but also your drinking water, 80% of all drinking water is made by trees.i life in a provincie that has only 2% left of forrest, rest is all concrete and cement, its awefull,may love be our guide not fear: love to all that is

Newly released bear to other bears, " Man, You won't believe what happened to me. I was cruising in my hood and I found this fresh pile of food in this tunnel shaped garbage can. So I thought, free grits, why not? When I grabbed the food the garbage can tried to eat me. Then, and this is where it gets weird, aliens showed up and made my unconscious. Then, (in a whispered tone) I think they did experiments on me. Anyway, my hoopadoop was really sore when I came to. Then the garbage can took off and, I know you guys won't believe me but I was traveling at least 2-3 times faster in the garbage can than I have ever have before.. When it finally stopped, the garbage can spit me out, and I had this ugly, ugly thing around my neck. Man, I am really scared. I don't know where I am. None of this area looks familiar. And the aliens took off with the garbage can so i can't get back home. Truly happened. I swear. So any hot sows in the vicinity?"

Wonderful

This just proves that with right information, and selective questions you could prove anything. It is a fact that in statistical analysis you can prove anything you want. So becareful who talk to, only record the weak minded.

BEAUTIFUL! 🥰

Irene was later found out to be my grandmother also

Living in the mountains is a risky business, if your scared of bears and such best stay in the flats

To quote a line from a famous movie "The real power is not to kill, but to let live". I'm a gun guy and would kill in self-defense, but can't see killing for the fun or of it.

Grizzlies are scary savage beasts that can tear you to pieces in a heart beat. They are not Teddy bears to cuddle with, that's for sure!

Bring them back... Right. Put them in YOUR backyard!

Wonderful Work!! I love these men who take up the cause of a single species. True heroes.

Great story!

So fulla shit!! This spin with the cute little girls and the even cuter cubs leaves out the part about bears being apex predators! If they're hungry and you're there, TAG, you're it!!!

The last song is called "Saturn" by Sleeping at Last.

We all do need these wild places. I hate the hunter who selfishly ended Irene’s life.

Interesting, but a bit sentimental ,also a tad anthropomorphic .

Remember this when you venture outside it’s the Bears backyard not yours .They need a lot of space to move around.

Who wants a grizzly in their back yard - or in the pasture killing cows or sheep?

Headline 2020: First Grizzly Bear Mauling of Newly Introduced Bear in Populous US City

Interesting how this beautifully produced video villifies hunters when they are the ones who do the most for Conservation and always have. Respect this magnificent animal and remember those who have to live with them have the right to defend themselves and their property from them. There are too many people who have little to no contact or understanding of the real wild world.

Bears are everywhere in BC I see them all the time and can appreciate them. Leave them alone and live with them.. I hope they are restored over there.

Great Story ! Carry On ! Greetings from France !

Bear: Should release the human back to the wilderness? I don't want them in my backyard.

The other half of nature are the beautiful animals that call it home.

I had a grizzly attack me but I pulled it’s eye out and it ran away. I still have its eye on my freezer

there was a reason why early settlers killed grizzlies

noticed you never interview natives the ones with the most knowledge , and the ones who never trophy hunt

what a wonderful show. Many thanks. Are there more like this?

People clearly didn't want them back if you had to convince them.

Take them from a healthy environment to an area where they do not usually survive. Sounds like they are trying to rid the world of them.

Fantastic how the bears stole the bait without being trapped!

That's all fine and dandy, now let's take a look at how many elk families were cut short by the voracious appetite Irene would have during her time foraging for food in preparation of hibernation.... Okay?

LOVE THE PICTURE OF THE HUNTER AT THE END OF THE VIDEO!

Here In Colorado we don’t have any grizzly bears anymore.

I fish and hunt and all but if they want the bears numbers up then why permit hunting in that area?

Irene was throwing it baccc 🤪

So take grizzly bears out of Glacier National Park and move them to Washington State where it rains 6days out of 7? There the bears can be miserable! Stop screwing around with the bears! Maybe we should move you to the Arctic circle since there aren’t many people there and there needs to be!

Grizzlies are all cool and amazing until one day, you run into one and surprise it and it slaps the life out of you. Quite interesting (not) how apartment dwellers think wild bears react to people as all cuddly and nice when they are designed to be top predators.

Beautiful!

Aweh! Love this

There's a few grizzly bears still alive in Manchester uk

Well made video, but I disagree with its premise that it's great to have bears roaming around in human's living space.

I was logging North of Priest river in 1978 and saw a couple grizzly bears I had heard they were taken from Yellowstone for causing trouble and replaced them around priest lake .yikes they seemed to avoid man we had no guns or spray

Is there ANY negative effect on the bear's brain from the EMF 's of the tracking collar? Possibly, I am incorrect in identifying the field of energy the collar emits. The collar is so close to the brain. If you and your family are in your kitchen and a lot of electric appliances are running at the same time there is a field of energy present, as you know; am I correct, an Electro Magnetic Field? EMF 's that have been found to be disruptive to the body; basically unhealthy. ...I have great admiration for the work the conservation biologists do. My question is not intended to be argumentive in any manner. I have always wondered if there were any ill effects whatsoever from the collar as it is so close to the brain.

Bears deserves to live free ❤️

No issues with Grizzlies here in canada we hve plenty of thm cannot hunt thm either only black bears cuz we hve a healthy population of thm stay safe

i wonder how theese people think when theese cute cubs eat their grand children,theese are not cudly animsls,theese things are predators and killers.

Majestic? Yes. Good for cohabitating near humans? Not so much.

Grizzled need to be re-introduced to all of the states in north America. Ancestors darned near wiped them out and the polar bears are suffering as well. Bears help level out game. Even black bears are losing their habitat. We need to find effective ways of co- existing with bears.

They took a year to convince the population that was against releasing these bear into the area. That sounds like propaganda to me. I don't want any brown bears in my area or on my land. There were reasons for the drive against bear and wolves in the first place. In most cases with these animals it is science by emotion for those that want their reintroduction.

How did a hunter get into a wilderness preserve and kill precious Irene?

much love for this vid ... such a beautifully done film

I live and climb in the Canadian Rockies. Grizzly bears are a fact of life here. I can’t believe all the scaredy-cat comments here. Talk about snow flakes.

we have a big bear population in Missouri

BLESS AMERICA!!!!!

What you have witnessed is a one sided view of this love afair with bears, But in reality, what happens when one of these lovers is faced between them an death, I assure they will shoot first an ask questions later.

You can love these animals and still totally understand that they are extremely dangerous. I love them, but I don't EVER want to encounter one in the wild. EVER. But I fully believe that we would lose something very big if they went extinct.

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I think all the bear lovers here should prove their love like Timothy Treadwell did--by becoming a meal for a Grizzly! Who'll be the first volunteer?

How many hundreds of deer moose and elk did they kill

This is quite a fluff piece, I bet the narrator lives in Manhattan, or some place such as that.

And they don't collar and tag em now,they have round circles on their backs where samples r taken...and they dropped it off right here by an rv park...these r monsters who fear nothing