Bear recovery: Indigenous-led project aims to restore endangered North Cascades grizzlies – Times Colonist
May 04, 2026
An effort to reintroduce grizzlies in North Cascades National Park was derailed by funding cuts, but a joint First Nations initiative is moving ahead.
Early in the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2015, John Ashley Pryce noticed something strange in his yard. A garbage bag was torn open, and trash was “strewn about the property” in Eastgate, B.C., a small community just east of E.C. Manning Provincial Park.
Pryce took in the scene, his eyes passing over yellowing leaves and dried grass before coming to rest on a massive creature sniffing the detritus. Its fur was mottled with shocks of brown, blonde and black. His eyes traced a prominent hump behind its shoulders and a round, dish-shaped face, both hallmark characteristics of a grizzly bear.
