Greater Yellowstone region grizzly biodiversity gets a boost

Here’s another great article by Rob Chaney . . .

Greater Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has grown by at least two this spring.

Federal and state biologists count grizzlies every year, although they don’t usually get this granular. But when a Wyoming Game and Fish wildlife monitoring flight on March 27 brought back the photo of Grizzly 1126F outside her Teton Wilderness hibernation den with two cubs clearly tussling beside her, the discovery checked some special scientific and legal boxes.

“She’s clearly in great shape, for a young mother coming out of the den,” said Quentin Kujala, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Chief of Conservation Policy. “That’s the gold standard to the point of cub production.”

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A nice op-ed by one of our coplaintiffs:

"Before #grizzly bears can be recovered and delisted, we need safeguards in place to ensure that the grizzly breeding population gets adequate protections from being shot and killed by the livestock industry. We have tens of millions of #cattle in America but we only have about 700 grizzly bears in the #GreaterYellowstoneEcosystem which is why we are thrilled that the court sent the agencies back to the drawing board."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/29/big-win-for-grizzlies/