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Some bears are thriving to the point where they can still be hunted; others are wobbling on the brink of extinction
If the bears are thriving, why mess with a good thing? The biggest reason is that an endangered- or threatened-species label was not supposed to be a permanent thing. A long-term goal of the federal act was to get animals to the point at which they could be...
Much of that reduced mortality has come from minimizing the interactions between bears and humans. Sheep-grazing rights once brought lots of food into grizzly territory on National Forest land, for example, but grazing allotments have been all but phased out. Garbage dumps and piles of entrails left behind by...
None of those protections are likely to go if the grizzly is delisted, says the FWS. What may vanish are the strict limits on timber cutting, mineral exploration and other development that the Endangered Species Act requires. Still, that doesn't mean the bears would find themselves in a free...
But none of that, say opponents of de-listing, is good enough. "The grizzly may be out of intensive care," says Louisa Wilcox of the NRDC, "but it's too early to send it home from the hospital without adequate precautions." In particular, she suggests that the states won't...