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In recent years, government officials in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, seeking to reclaim state management of their grizzly bear populations.
Adjoining the Bob Marshall to the north is the Great Bear Wilderness of 286,700 acres (1,160 km²), and to the south of the Bob Marshall is the Scapegoat Wilderness consisting of 239,936 acres (971 km²). An additional 1 million acres of roadless National Forest, private, and BLM land surrounds the designated wildernesses on all sides, for a ...
In May, a grizzly bear at Grand Teton National Park sent a man to the hospital. Last year, wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly that broke into a home in Montana and killed a female hiker near ...
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area is a congressionally-designated wilderness area located in Western Montana region of the United States.It is named after Bob Marshall (1901–1939), an early forester in the federal government, conservationist, and co-founder of The Wilderness Society. [1]
The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the northern Rocky Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana.Created by an act of Congress in 1983, this rugged alpine wilderness is divided into four separated parcels typified by complex mountain topography: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit.
Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascades mountain range, the federal government said this week — a decision that followed years of bitterly divided debate.
It is also believed that the grizzly bear and wolf packs may frequent the refuge, and wolverine have been recorded. The refuge has been designated a National Natural Landmark [ 2 ] and the creation of the 32,350 acre (130.1 km 2 ) Red Rock Lakes Wilderness in 1976 ensures that no further human improvements will be undertaken on the vast bulk of ...
Grizzly bears roamed the North Cascades of Washington for thousands of years but have disappeared more recently.