MISSOULA, Mont.— The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee on Tuesday will consider implementing additional measures to reduce conflicts between grizzly bears and people in the northern Rockies, as requested by conservation groups and others.
The number of grizzly bear deaths has spiked to unprecedented levels in recent years. In 2018, at least 120 bears died in the Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide regions. Most were preventable mortalities from human-related causes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife today held a hearing on the Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act. Introduced by Rep. Grijalva, the bill would protect grizzly bears at a time when hostile state management and federal proposals, climate change and shifting food sources threaten their continued recovery. Grizzly bears are sacred to many Tribal Nations and as a top predator, play a vital role in balancing natural systems.
Tribal leaders today testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife in support of the Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act. As noted by Lynnette Grey Bull, Senior Vice President of Global Indigenous Council and spokesperson for the Northern Arapaho Elders Society of the Wind River Indian Reservation, the Act is based on The Grizzly: A treaty of Cooperation, Cultural Revitalization and Restoration. It is the most signed treaty in history.
JACKSON, Wyoming, and VICTOR, Idaho (April 4, 2019)—A coalition of organizations today submitted petitions to the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and the Idaho Fish and Game Commission proposing rules to require hunters in grizzly bear habitat to carry bear spray.
BOZEMAN, Mont.– Conservation groups today called on the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee to update a decade-old report on grizzly bear conflict prevention after a record number of bears died last year.
Missoula, MT-- Moments ago, a judge ruled that safeguards for Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears are restored, deciding that Sec. Zinke’s Department of the Interior decision to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the population was illegal.
In response, scientists, wildlife biologists and photographers released the following statements:
MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal judge today granted a temporary restraining order stopping Wyoming and Idaho’s planned grizzly hunt that was set to start Sept. 1. The order grants the bears a reprieve while the judge decides whether the federal government should reinstate federal protections for the bears.
Piikani Nation * Global Indigenous Council * Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council * Sierra Club
MISSOULA, Mont.— A hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in U.S. District Court on a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Yellowstone’s famed grizzly bears.
Wyoming moves to trophy hunt grizzlies.
Jackson, WY— Today, 107 wildlife photographers released a letter calling on Wyoming Governor Matt Mead to halt his state’s proposed grizzly bear trophy hunt. The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission votes on the proposal in just four days. The signers emphasized the importance of saving iconic wildlife like the globally-loved Mother 399 who is at-risk if a hunt happens.