Daines, Rosendale Push For Grizzly Bear Delisting
Montana’s Republican congressmen are asking the Interior Department to remove Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.
In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Matt Rosendale joined Idaho and Wyoming’s congressional delegation asking for more information on how the Biden administration will handle grizzlies, including a timeline on when the two populations will be returned to state management.
The letter comes after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a recommendation at the end of last month that the species as a whole retain its status as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.
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After two failed attempts to turn over management of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears to the northern Rockies states, federal wildlife managers are not immediately recommending that the regionâs bruins be delisted for a third time.
The guidance to maintain grizzlies as âthreatenedâ under the Endangered Species Act across their range in the lower 48 states came in a five-year status review that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Regional Director Matt Hogan signed off on last week. But the lack of endorsement for Wyoming-, Montana- and Idaho-led management does not mean the federal government intends to maintain jurisdiction over the ecosystemâs 700-plus grizzlies indefinitely.
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