Feds to Consider Grizzly Bear Delisting

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has accepted petitions from the governors of Montana and Wyoming to consider removing the grizzly bear ( Ursus arctos horribilis ) from the endangered species list in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. Now, the Service will…

initiate a comprehensive, 12-month status review to determine whether the bears in these two distinct population segments are distinct and recovered. However, this status review will not explicitly consider delisting grizzly bears in the Cabinet Yaak, Northern Cascades, Bitterroot, or Selkirk recovery zones.