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CHEYENNE Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Representative Liz Cheney, and other Members of Congress from Montana and Idaho sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her to support delisting grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and Northern Continental Divide (NCDE). In both areas, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has noted that the grizzly bear populations are at carrying capacity and are no longer endangered, the Congress members said. “The facts don’t lie: The grizzly bear has recovered in significant areas in the west, including in Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” Senator Lummis said. “In those areas the federal government needs to hand over population management to state wildlife managers who know the area and know best how to balance the needs of these ecosystems. At this point, the Fish and Wildlife Service, under both Democrat and Republican Administrations,

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