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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Grizzly found, killed in the Bighorns

By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Wyoming officials on Sunday detected a grizzly bear living in the Bighorn Mountains, a range 100 miles east of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that grizzlies haven’t occupied for…

A lot of bear: Yellowstone grizzly weighs in at near-record 712 pounds

• Coming out of a verdant summer, Wyoming bears were in good shape. One grizzly tipped the scales just three pounds shy of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s top mark.   By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com Rotund, plump, hefty — go ahead…

Endangered Species Act protections for wolverines likely imminent

• State surveys don’t placate federal biologists who say the Lower 48 population is ‘less secure’ than previously thought.   By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com An analysis of wolverines in Wyoming and the rest of their Lower 48 range paints a…

Back in Grand Teton, Grizzly 399 stayed out of trouble while down south

JACKSON (WNE) — Jackson Hole’s most watched bear has returned to Grand Teton National Park with a clean record. In late August, Grizzly 399 left the park, heading south, and crossed onto private property. She spent the better part of…

Game and Fish wants to sell 320 acres in Jackson Hole to the U.S. Forest Service

By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole Daily Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON – Wyoming’s state game agency wants to sell 320 acres surrounded by federal lands in Jackson Hole to the U.S. Forest Service. That’s according to a public notice about…

Wyoming Game and Fish still working to delist the grizzly bear as an endangered species

Wyoming Game and Fish Director Brian Nesvick joined SVI to give some updates on how the state is still working to get the grizzly bear delisted as an endangered species. He says Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon filed a petition to…

Grizzly bear mistakenly shot and killed by a hunter in North Idaho

The following is a news release from Idaho Fish and Game compiled by EastIdahoNews.com –  UPPER PRIEST LAKE — On the morning of June 8, a nonresident hunter shot and killed a male grizzly bear he mistook for a black…

Game and Fish to begin grizzly bear captures for monitoring purposes in northwest Wyoming

LANDER – As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will conduct capture operations in areas of northwest Wyoming beginning this spring and continuing through…

Grand Teton superintendent: Pandemic visitation was ‘a glimpse of the future’

By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole Daily Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON  — As far as national park visits are concerned, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem saw a significant decrease in visitation in 2022. But park managers aren’t expecting that drop to…

Grizzly ‘delisting’ back on the table as feds reconsider state management

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com Federal wildlife officials on Friday morning announced they will again consider surrendering management of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s grizzly bears, giving jurisdiction to the states. The news came in the form of a “90-day finding” in…