{"id":3727,"date":"2026-07-15T23:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:07:02","slug":"a-new-federal-rule-would-let-states-manage-threatened-grizzly-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"A new federal rule would let states manage threatened grizzly bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Interior proposed allowing Western states to manage their grizzly populations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The proposed rule does not remove the bears from the endangered species list.<\/li>\n<li>Grizzlies have surpasses certain population benchmarks but remain below historic averages.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Department of the Interior announced a revision to a pending 2025 grizzly management proposal allowing individual states to manage bear populations rather than federal agencies. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3725\">O\u2019Leary\u2019s China conspiracy claims spark federal defamation case in Utah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe science is more than clear: grizzly bears have recovered and far exceeded every federal recovery benchmark,\u201d Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Interior is returning conservation leadership to the Western states instead of Washington bureaucrats.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The change would not necessarily remove the grizzly\u2019s status as \u201cthreatened\u201d on the endangered species list, but it would create what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service \u2014 the agency responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act \u2014 is calling \u201cflexibility\u201d so that Idaho, Montana and Wyoming can manage them according to their own needs. <\/p>\n<p>Burgum, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte made the announcement during a livestream on a very windy Tuesday in Big Sky, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the work of Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and many Montanans over decades, the grizzly bear recovery story is one of America\u2019s great conservation successes,\u201d said Gianforte at the press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this success has come a challenge \u2014 bears have expanded into new areas and conflicts have increased with farmers, ranchers, recreationists and residents. Returning management to the states is a welcome change.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What does the new rule say?<\/h3>\n<p>The full text of the revised rule has not yet been published in the Federal Register and will not, the website states, until July 17. However, a 62-page \u201cunpublished\u201d version was uploaded, which might be subject to change. <\/p>\n<p>That document details how, through a \u201cmemorandum of understanding,\u201d the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will grant states, tribes and other authorized parties specific management responsibilities. Those entities will still be accountable to the federal agencies, but they\u2019ll determine their own management and conservation plans. <\/p>\n<p>A number of prohibitions regarding the \u201ctake\u201d \u2014 killing \u2014 of grizzly bears in the lower 48 remains in place, though the proposal offers states latitude to create broad exemptions they can then implement at their discretion. <\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of the new rule, the Interior opened another 30-day public comment period for this specific change to its 2025 grizzly management proposal. <\/p>\n<h3>Reactions to the proposal<\/h3>\n<p>Reviews on the proposal are mixed. <\/p>\n<p>Some wildlife advocates and conservation groups applauded the result, while others were unhappy with the news. Those that did not like it suggested the action is just a stop on the way to the bear\u2019s full delisting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a decision being made for political reasons, it is not based on science, in the best interest of the survival of the species, or in compliance with the requirements of the Endangered Species Act,\u201d Greg LeDonne, Idaho director of Western Watersheds Project, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clearly too soon to remove federal protections in light of the continued lack of connectivity, ongoing habitat destruction and modification due to climate change, and record numbers of grizzly bear mortalities in 2025 even under existing protections.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>LeDonne added that the state\u2019s various management plans are already well known and that they\u2019ll lead to more grizzlies being killed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese states consistently ignore science and ethics, promote misinformation, and enact laws and regulations to permit the killing of carnivores by any means they deem necessary,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce delisted and placed under state management, grizzly bears will be subjected to the same persecution and eliminationist goals that these states imposed on wolves after delisting. Not only will recovery and connectivity between populations be impeded, but the survival of grizzly bears in the lower 48 States may be jeopardized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3723\">Senate grills Trump\u2019s national intelligence nominee ahead of confirmation vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those pleased with the news see it as a recognition of a massive effort to help the grizzly bear return to the landscape. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 50 years, states and landowners invested in grizzly recovery without any regulatory recognition of what they\u2019d built,\u201d Jonathan Wood, vice president of law and policy at the Property and Environment Research Center, said in a statement. \u201cThis proposal changes that and gives them reason to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservation and hunting club founded by Theodore Roosevelt sees the proposal as good news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Boone and Crockett Club celebrates today\u2019s proposed rule for grizzly bear conservation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,\u201d the club wrote in its press release.<\/p>\n<p>Citing how low the bear population was in 1975 \u2014 a mere 136 \u2014 compared to the nearly 2,000 alive today, it called the proposal an \u201cinnovative fix.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>Is grizzly bear recovery a success story? <\/h3>\n<p>The effort to delist the grizzly has been ongoing for decades with various flare-ups at the legislative or legal level popping up from time to time. <\/p>\n<p>The last big one was in 2017 when the Fish and Wildlife Service attempted to remove the bear from the threatened list. A federal judge in Montana  a year later. <\/p>\n<p>Citing both a lack of scientific evidence and an \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d application of the threat analysis necessitated by the Endangered Species Act, he told the agency to go back to the drawing board. <\/p>\n<p>Then just a year ago this month, the Wyoming congressional delegation introduced legislation in the House seeking to delist the bear. <\/p>\n<p>At that time, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Deseret News that \u201cthe grizzly bear was first listed as threatened in 1975, and the recovery goal has been about 500 bears &#8230; We exceeded that in 1997. We have exceeded recovery goals for almost three decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Christopher Ketcham published &#8220;This Land,&#8221; where he summarized the longer timeline. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut it this way: Grizzlies in 1800 ranged on 740,000 square miles across 16 states west of the 100th meridian,\u201d he wrote. \u201cA century-and-a-half later they had a range of about 37,000 square miles in three states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, there are at least 1,900 grizzlies in the lower 48 states. About 700 are in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, more than 1,000 in the Northern Continental Divide area of Montana and the rest in Washington and Idaho. <\/p>\n<p>To Fish and Wildlife Service director Brian Nesvik, the population rebounding from such historic lows and existing with humans is a success story. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrizzly bear conservation has steadily advanced over the decades in many portions of the species\u2019 range,\u201dNesvik said. \u201cThis proposal recognizes these successes and right-sizes management where the greatest conservation success has taken place. This action would support the administration\u2019s priority of easing regulatory burdens through common sense flexibilities in management.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3721\">Opinion: The blind spot in the talk about  Trump Accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are grizzly bears an endangered species? 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