“They had quite the fight,” Petersen said. 23, 1979, the last day of archery elk season, hunting outfitter Ed Wiseman walked into a grizzly taking a nap. But then in 1979 “one popped up.” On Sept. Wildlife officials declared the grizzly extinct in Colorado in 1953. "We kill our monsters and then we want to recreate them in our imagination." David Petersen I don't think there are any left, but who knows? It's a big wilderness out there and they were extinct for all those years and then one pops up,” said Petersen, who wrote “Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado?” “There are no grizzlies in Colorado or the South San Juans,” Joe Lewandowski with the CPW said in an email.Īuthor David Petersen spent years researching grizzlies in Colorado and he agrees with CPW - mostly. He asked Colorado Wonders about it - whether the bears might be alive in the woods of the San Juans and whether reintroduction of the grizzly is a possibility.Ĭolorado Parks and Wildlife is unequivocal about the matter. “I can't help but just wonder is there maybe a few grizzlies still left? I think it's such an intoxicating story because it's almost like there's this big mystery because people claim that they've seen grizzlies.” “There's a lot of really wild places in the state still,” Lich said.
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