By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | June 23, 2017 07:37am ET
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears
in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the Endangered Species List yesterday
(June 22).
The decision to return the Yellowstone bears to state and
tribal management reflected rebounding grizzly numbers in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), a region that encompasses Wyoming, Idaho and
Montana, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke said in
a statement.
However, scientists and Tribal Nations representatives have
argued against the delisting, citing that the bears aren't out of the woods
just yet, according to
a statement published online by the Sierra Club, a nonprofit environmental
organization.
About 700 bears currently inhabit the GYE — up from 136
individuals in 1975 — and their range covers 2,500 square miles (6,475 square
kilometers). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) found the population to
be stable
and sustainable, determining that the bears had reached a recovery point
that no longer required federal protections, representing "one of
America's great conservation success stories," Zinke said.
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