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Delisting the Yellowstone Grizzly: Good News or Bad?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer act, bear, bears, Center for Biological Diversity, endangered, federal, grizzly, IUCN, Red List, Ryan Zinke, species, wildlife

Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has bounced back since the mid-1970s, but environmentalists think the iconic predator still needs federal protection…

Grizzly Bear. Credit: Kevin Duffy, FlickrCC

Wild & Wooly

Grizzly Bear Redux

E The Environmental Magazine bear, grizzly, National Parks Conservation Association, North Cascades, NPCA, recovery

If the concept of rewilding interests you, be sure to tune into a special Google Hangout discussion on the recovery of grizzly bears in Washington’s North Cascades hosted by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) this coming Friday March 20th at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT). North Cascades National Park, considered the “wild nearby” […]

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Is Grizzly Bear on the Ropes?

Ellen Cools bears, endangered, Endangered Species Act, grizzly, list, species, threatened

Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to safeguard grizzly bears now? I heard that their numbers are dwindling and they could vanish from the Lower 48 if we don’t protect them. —Jim Meth, Akron, OH Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now […]