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Sierra Club: Grizzly mortality limits flawed

by Mike Koshmrl/Jackson Hole News & Guide | NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Conservation groups worry that high death rates of boar grizzlies in a post-delisting world will not be captured by population models and that bear numbers will unknowingly fall into decline as a result. Modeling conducted by former federal grizzly researcher David Mattson and distributed […]

15Nov

What might happen with no Teton hunt?

by Cory Hatch/Jackson Hole News & Guide | NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Grand Teton National Park’s “elk reduction program” began Oct. 22 sans the usual fusillade of controversy to accompany the scores of bullets now whizzing around Blacktail Butte. Set aside for a moment the question of whether hunting is even appropriate in a national park […]

State grizzly plans “intentionally managing for a decline”

Greater Yellowstone Coalition executive director Caroline Byrd has written a strongly worded op-ed piece in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. In it she remarks that the states are “intentionally managing for a decline of grizzlies” and “will turn a remarkable 40-year recovery process and $40 million investment into a failure.”

State grizzly plans “intentionally managing for a decline”

First lawsuit of the “grizzly war” filed

In the first legal skirmish since the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed delisting the grizzly bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a lawsuit has been filed against the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Commission that oversees it’s affairs.

Iconic places under threat from climate change

A new report from UNESCO, the Union of Concerned Scientists and UNEP says some World Heritage sites — including Yellowstone National Park — are under “dire threat from climate change”, and some may be damaged beyond saving. “America’s Yellowstone National Park is also seeing firsthand effects of climate change as warmer winters have led to […]

06May

Wildlife Biologist Says It’s Too Soon To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies

Proposing to remove Yellowstone’s grizzlies from the Endangered Species List is a “strictly political” decision says grizzly bear scientist David Mattson. Attribution: Yellowstone Insider Source: Wildlife Biologist Says It’s Too Soon To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies

03Mar

USFWS Proposes Delisting Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzlies From Endangered Species Act Protections

by Wyoming Wildlife Advocates | MARCH 3, 2016 The US Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to remove Yellowstone grizzly bears from the protections of the Endangered Species Act. Wyoming Wildlife Advocates believes removing these protections is premature. Due to the increasing effects of climate change and loss of critical food sources, as well as […]