“Let’s make sure they are delisted and then Game and Fish will do whatever it needs to do to follow up on that,” Gordon said.
Wyoming will take a “first things first” approach to the bears and hunting, said Gordon. “It just seems like a waste of a resource but that’s really our only option right now,” Nesvik said. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2020.Īny future grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming would have strict limits, Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Brian Nesvik said at the news conference.Īs things stand, the department each year has to kill as many as 35 grizzly bears that kill livestock, raid food on people's property or cause other problems with humans, Nesvik pointed out. In 2018, a federal judge restored those protections, a decision upheld by the 9th U.S. Wyoming and Idaho were planning grizzly hunts after President Donald Trump’s administration removed protections for the bears.
Lack of genetic diversity among the region's bears remains a particular concern but Wyoming is willing to move bears around so that's less of a problem, Gordon said. The agency cited insufficient connection between the bears' best areas of habitat and people killing them, among other reasons. The Fish and Wildlife Service considers Yellowstone’s grizzlies “biologically recovered." The Yellowstone region's population has rebounded from about 100 in 1975, when they were first listed, to as many as 1,000 today.Īs they've recovered in number, the bears have been showing up ever farther and more frequently away from their core habitat in and near Yellowstone National Park.Įven so, in March, the Fish and Wildlife Service as part of a five-year review recommended continuing threatened-species protections for grizzlies. Grizzlies wherever they appear are apex predators but also content to feed on berries and even moths. Yellowstone's grizzlies can reach 700 pounds (320 kilograms), not as big as their cousins in Alaska but much bigger than the black bears found across most of North America. If the answer is yes, the agency would have a year to make a final decision on the request.
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