Under a new rule, grizzly bears would be protected by the Endangered Species Act in Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

Grizzlies in the Lower 48 will remain under endangered species protection, federal officials announced Wednesday. Wyoming Gov ...

Prior attempts to lift protections — in 2007 and 2017 — were blocked in federal court. In 2021, federal officials decided ...

Human recreation on mountain trails is displacing grizzly bears and wolves from their natural habitats, even when the trails ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied petitions to delist grizzly bears and says the species is still threatened in the Northern Rockies. The USFWS also announced a major shift in its approach to ...

Federal officials also said they will reclassify the grizzly’s status so that ranchers would be able to shoot bears that are ...

Stories about bears, wolves, bison and elk, and their home on the range, Yellowstone Park, paid the bills at the Gazette this ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to keep federal protections for grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, but it ...

In a 171-page document released January 8, FWS responded to the states, rejecting attempts to move the species under state ...