Grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains may be stripped of its federal protections now that the population has recovered from overhunting and trapping.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said state officials provided"substantial" information that grizzlies have recovered from the threat of extinction in the regions surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. Friday's move kicks off at least a year of further study before final decisions about the Yellowstone and Glacier regions.
However, Republican lawmakers in the region in recent years also adopted more aggressive policies against gray wolves, including loosened trapping rules that could lead to grizzlies being inadvertently killed.As many as 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the western half of the U.S. They were exterminated in most of the country early last century by overhunting and trapping, and the last hunts in the northern Rockies occurred decades ago.
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