Sentences with phrase «federal polar bear biologists»

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[Oct. 2, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Updated Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

Federal biologists have said that this long - term ice retreat is the main reason they concluded that polar bears deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Scott Schliebe, a federal biologist and the polar bear project leader for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the basic connection between shrinking ice and greater distress for the bears was well established.

Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so.