Are there grizzly bears in western Tennessee?

[taterguy]

If not, the NBA team from Memphis needs to change its fucking mascot.

[Dash87]

1. The Tennessee Incredibly Lost Grizzly Bears

[ohiosmith]

2. Couldn't agree more!

And while we're at it,.......Pittsburg Penguins!

[taterguy]

4. PittsburgH

Dumbass

And don't get me started about inland cities with pirate nicknames.

[ohiosmith]

6. Yea! Like the Pittsburg guys!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Nope

The most common type of bear in the Southeatern US is the black bear. They range in color from black to pale brown. They stand between two to three feet tall (at the shoulder) on all fours, and around five feet tall standing on their hind legs. Grizzly bears, or brown bears, were once common throughout the US, but now are only found in the Northwest.

[hlthe2b]

5. NOT true that Grizzlies are limited to Alaska & Pacific Northwest

In 1975, the Service listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the lower 48 states under the Endangered Species Act. There are five areas where grizzlies remain today, Yellowstone ecosystem, Northern Continental Divide ecosystem, Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, Selkirk ecosystem, and Northern Cascades ecosystem. The grizzly bear recovery effort has met with some successes. These successes have been largely due to a cooperative effort among several organizations called the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, which coordinates habitat management, research, education, and outreach.
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/grizzly/

Range: Grizzly bears once roamed throughout the entire western U.S. south into Mexico including the Great Plains and along rivers in desert habitats. Control actions and habitat loss extirpated them from 98 percent of their original habitat in the U.S. including the Great Plains and all habitats south of Yellowstone National Park and Teton National Parks in Wyoming including California, Idaho and Washington. Populations persisted in the Northern Rocky Mountains including Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks and in northwestern Montana and extreme northern Idaho next to Canada. A large population of grizzly bears lives inland in Alaska and northern Canada. The southern populations in Canada’s British Columbia and Alberta are greatly reduced. Thanks to conservation efforts since about 1975, grizzly bears are recovering well in Yellowstone and elsewhere in the northern Rockies and are even beginning to recolonize prairie habitats along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana.

There are have been occasional sitings in wilderness areas even as far south as Colorado Rockies as well--likely a result of the Yellowstone re-population...

[ohiosmith]

7. The Memphis franchise started in Vancouver.

[hlthe2b]

8. nonsequitor?

Pass the

[ohiosmith]

9. My gift!

[taterguy]

10. Anything north and west of Memphis

Is the fucking Alaska & Pacific Northwest

[hlthe2b]

11. Hmmm. Appears you may be a proud alumn of "teabagger" university....?

They tend to teach geography that way.

[taterguy]

15. Appears you may be . . .

Just do us all a favor and shut the fusk up.

[hlthe2b]

16. Oh, chill, will you?

I'm just ribbing you....

[taterguy]

17. I'm as chilled as George Gervin

[WooWooWoo]

12. I bet there are more grizzly bears in Tennessee

than there are jazz bands in Utah.

[Arugula Latte]

13. Nevahmind ...

Note to self: read all posts before responding

[Major Nikon]

14. Yes

This four-acre exhibit is home to grizzly bears, timber wolves, elk, trumpeter swans, ruddy ducks, green-winged teal and sandhill cranes.

http://memphiszoo.org/tetontrek#

[Jamaal510]

18. The Lakers and Jazz give them a run for their money

when it comes to dumb team names; there are no big lakes in the L.A. area like near Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Utah isn't exactly known for it's jazz scene.