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The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies [4] of the brown bear inhabiting North America. In addition to the mainland grizzly ( Ursus arctos horribilis ), other morphological forms of brown bear in North America are sometimes identified as grizzly bears.
The last California grizzly bear sighting was in 1924 and no specimens have been seen since. [29] A small brown bear population once lived in the northern parts of Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona. [30] This population is now extinct as the last known Mexican grizzly bear was shot in 1976. [31]
USA, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming — Evert, a field botanist, was mauled by a grizzly bear while hiking in the Kitty Creek Drainage area of the Shoshone National Forest, just east of Yellowstone National Park. The bear was trapped and tranquilized earlier in the day by a grizzly bear research team.
A grizzly bear wandered into an area of Wyoming ... t been documented in the area south of the Bighorn Mountains “since long before the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population was listed under ...
Without the Endangered Species Act, Wyoming could establish a grizzly bear hunting season. ... seeking to reclaim state management of their grizzly bear populations. In 2023, ...
List of U.S. state mammals and related mammalian designations State Mammal Marine mammal Other mammal 1 Other mammal 2 Other mammal 3 Alabama: American black bear (2006) [1]: West Indian manatee (2009) [2]
The aim is to eventually restore the population in the region to 200 bears within 60 to 100 years. The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central ...
A 1959-1970 bear study suggested a grizzly bear population size of about 176, later revised to about 229. [1] Later estimates have ranged as low as 136 and as high as 540; the most recent is a minimum estimate of 236, [ 1 ] but biologists think there may be as many as 1,000 bears in the ecosystem. [ 24 ]