Great Bear Foundation of Montana

Missoula, MT

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Physical Address:: Missoula, MT 59807 9383
EIN:: 81-0405765
Web URL:: greatbear.org
Leadership:: Charles Jonkel

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Fiscal Year Starting: Jan 01, 2007
Fiscal Year Ending: Dec 31, 2007

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Total Revenue	$87,096

Expenses
Total Expenses	$87,435

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Great Bear Foundation of Montana

Physical Address:: Missoula, MT 59807 9383
EIN:: 81-0405765
Web URL:: greatbear.org
NTEE Category:: C Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification; C30 Natural Resource Conservation and Protection; B Educational Institutions; B01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations; D Animal related; D31 Protection of Endangered Species
Year Founded:: 1982
Ruling Year:: 1982

Mission Statement

<div>The Great Bear Foundation is a 501(c((3) organization founded in 1981 and dedicated to the conservation of bears around the world and the diverse ecosystems they require to survive.</div>

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Leadership

Charles Jonkel

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Program: Bear Basics

Budget:: --
Category:: Environment
Population Served:: Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)

Program Description:

<p >The Bear Basics Program for K-12 schools is a free, interactive presentation that has educated thousands of Montana students on the natural history, behavior, and ecology of large North American predators. The focus is primarily on black, grizzly, and polar bears, but wolves and mountain lions are included, as learning to live with top-level predators is essential in Montana. Bear biologists review our factual curricula and educational packets that we provide to teachers.</p>

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Program: Classes and seminars

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Category:: Environment
Population Served:: Adults; Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)

Program Description:

<p >Classes and seminars for the public include field trips (run at near cost) to the Churchill Northern Studies Center, Manitoba, Canada. Great Bear staff and Charles Jonkel also teach eight to ten classes a year in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy at their Pine Butte Swamp Grizzly Bear Preserve outside of Choteau, Montana, and with Glacier Institute, a non-profit organization based in Kalispell, Montana. Other seminars and conferences include the annual Bear Honoring in conjunction with Salish Kootenai College, and other slide shows and presentations.</p>

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Program: Research projects

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Category:: Environment
Population Served:: Adults

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<p >Research projects include the collection of DNA to document grizzlies in the Selway-Bitterroot WIlderness and film and oral history documentation of Kermode (Sprit) bears in coastal British Columbia. Great Bear helped develop a livestock loss payment system to landowners on the Rocky Mountain East Front, has worked in trans-border bear issues with Alberta and British Columbia, and has also been involved in litigation over delisting of the grizzly in the Yellowstone Ecosystem.</p>

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