Lawsuit: BNSF railway trains kill grizzly bears in Montana

The lawsuit states that 52 grizzlies were killed by trains around the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem from 2008 to 2018. In 2019, train-related grizzly deaths in the NCDE hit an annual high of eight that year. And three grizzlies were killed by trains just days apart from each other in September 2023.

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