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Griz Expert Says ‘Mountain Bikes Are A Grave Threat To Bears’

Cedrick S. Montgomery by Cedrick S. Montgomery
May 6, 2025
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Does mountain biking impact wildlife any more than hikers and horseback riders do?

More especially, could unexpectedly growing numbers of cyclists within the backcountry of Greater Yellowstone negatively affect the most iconic species—grizzly bears—residing in America’s best-known wildland environment?

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It’s a point of competition within the debate over how tons of the Gallatin Mountains, managed via the U.S. Forest Service, must receive expanded protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act. The wildest center of the Gallatins, positioned simply past Yellowstone National Park and extending northward in the direction of Bozeman’s back door, is the 155,000-acre Buffalo-Porcupine Creek Wilderness Study Area.

The destiny of the Gallatin is considered a national conservation problem, considering its significance to the fitness of the surroundings holding Yellowstone. Still, lines of confrontation have opened inside the conservation community.

The Gallatin Forest Partnership, led via the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, The Wilderness Society, Montana Wilderness Association, and aligned with mountain biking companies, is looking to have 102,000 acres included as the barren region in the Gallatin. However, it doesn’t include the Buffalo Horn-Porcupine.

“So some distance I even have handily visible folks who need mountain bikers to sacrifice and the assumption [is] that this could assist the natural world,” wrote Adam Oliver, founder of the Southwest Montana Mountain Bike Association, recently on the Bozone Listserv. “Show me the technological know-how, prove me wrong.”

Meanwhile, some other group, Montanans for Gallatin Wilderness and its allies, need 230,000 acres increased to desolate tract popularity, specifically the Buffalo Horn-Porcupine. Their concept has attracted massive aid from outstanding conservation biologists, retired land managers, and famous businesspeople and residents throughout the United States. They say they aren’t anti-mountain biking; instead, they’re “seasoned-grizzly endure” and choose foresighted wildlife protection in an age of weather change, a hastily-increasing human improvement footprint emanating from Bozeman and Big Sky, and growing degrees of out-of-doors pastime.

One flashpoint playing out publicly has been an internet discussion board called the Bozone Listserv, which essentially features a virtual community bulletin board. Cycling advocates have claimed that using their motorcycles in Grizzly US does not have severe effects—surely none worse, they insist, than hikers, horseback riders, and motorized recreationists.

If the Buffalo Horn-Porcupine has its fame increased from being a desolate tract study vicinity to full Capital “W” wilderness, motorized users, as well as mountain bikers, could be prohibited. However, unlawful incursion and blazing of trails through motorized customers and mountain bikers have already occurred within the desolate tract observed location, with little enforcement coming from the Forest Service.

“So some distance I have simply visible folks who need mountain bikers to sacrifice and the belief [is] that this could assist wildlife,” wrote Adam Oliver, the founder of the Southwest Montana Mountain Bike Association, currently on the Bozone Listserv. “Show me the technological know-how, prove me incorrect, or be willing to give up something yourself.”

If Mr. Oliver desires to be shown professional technology referring to mountain bikes and concerns about grizzlies, he needs the best contact, Dr. Christopher Servheen. Servheen retired from the government provider and spent four decades at the helm of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Team within the West. He is an adjunct studies professor within the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences at the University of Montana.

Servheen says that no matter assertions by way of mountain bikers, the medical evidence on impact is quite clean, primarily based on human-endure incidents that befallen and thousands of hours of disciplined observation and radio-tracking grlies.

“I do believe that mountain motorcycles are a grave risk to bears—each grizzly and black bear—for lots of reasons, and these are specified inside the Treat report and guidelines,” Servheen told Mountain Journal. “High speed and quiet human activity in bear habitat is a grave danger to the bears and human protection, and definitely can displace bears from trails and alongside trails. Bikes also degrade the desert character of wild regions by way of the mechanized journey at ordinary speeds.”

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I’m a travel blogger who writes about all things travel and adventure. From my home in Seattle, I have traveled the world—to places such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cuba, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Mexico, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Israel, Egypt, Dubai, Jordan, Morocco, Iceland, and a slew of other countries. I love documenting my adventures and the stories behind them. I like to write about topics that will connect with others; whether you’re traveling to a faraway land or across town for work, I want to share something meaningful. So, come join me as we embark on our journey together.

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