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Grizzly Bears In Greater Yellowstone NP Area Could Be Delisted Through Congress

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While some have been trying to get the Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Bear delisted as an endangered species through the courts, some lawmakers are trying to change things through Congress.

Wyoming U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman says a bill she has sponsored has recently moved out of committee.

The bears were delisted in 2007 and in 2017, but it didn’t stay that way for long.

Hageman says the population of bears has become so great that they now pose a serious and deadly threat to people and livestock in Wyoming.

Harriet Hageman

“The recovery goal is about 500. We have over 1,100 grizzly bears in Wyoming. We have had a recovered grizzly bear population for almost 25 years and there have been 3 efforts to delist it, but everytime that that happens, the environmental groups run to their favorite judges and the judges relist those grizzly bears, so I have introduced a bill to do it legislatively, got it out of committee and we will hopefully be bringing that to the floor is just a couple of weeks.”

A similar bill by Matt Rosendale out of Montana has also progressed and his bill is for the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, near Glacier National Park.

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