Posted on 06/22/2017 4:23:53 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
The Trump administration is removing Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears, after they spent more than four decades on the threatened list.
The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service announced the delisting decision Thursday, which immediately drew rebukes from conservationists and Democrats.
Officials said that conservation efforts for the bear, a more than fourfold increase in its population and state policies designed to protect the bears show that the delisting is warranted.
The Yellowstone grizzly bear lives in and around Yellowstone National Park in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
“This achievement stands as one of America’s great conservation successes; the culmination of decades of hard work and dedication on the part of state, tribal, federal and private partners,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who represented Montana in Congress until earlier this year, said in a statement. “As a Montanan, I am proud of what we’ve achieved together.” Other segments of the grizzly bear population are not affected by Thursday’s regulation and will continue to be protected as before.
The bear’s population is now around 700, compared with 150 when it was first listed. Its range is 22,500 square miles, more than double the range of the mid-1970s.
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Breaking News: Trump Hates Bears!!!
The only good bear is a dead bear.
When are they gonna blame Palin for this?
3...2...1....
I wonder if they will present any actual studies and evidence to support their suit? Oh, they'll file this with the 9th Circus and hand-wringing will suffice for evidence. Never mind.
Instead of touting the success of being able to delist the bears, it’s the negative “removes protections”.
These are highly intelligent, curious, dangerous animals that can range hundreds of miles. Grizzlies have been increasing their range throughout all of North America for decades, not just within some little box that tree huggers draw around the northwestern corner of Wyoming.
I started frequenting YNP in the early eighties, and have probably been in the backcountry of Yellowstone and Grand Tetons with my wife and (older) children for at least a week going on a dozen times. During that time I've watched a complete change in the Park's attitude toward black bears and Grizzlies, mostly good. About ten years ago, we started seeing Grizzlies almost all the way down to Jackson Hole. This move seems correct to me.
More Winning!
Great! Now open season on wolves!
States should immediately take back all lands unconstitutionally occupied by the feds including National Parks. If the people of the state want to protect those lands, then they can turn them into state parks.
The Congress shall have Power...to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings U.S. Constitution, Art I, Sec 8, Cl 17).
The above constitutional clause outlines the ONLY constitutional authorization for federal occupation within a state. National Parks do not meet these requirements.
Trump is doing the right thing by beginning to divest federal control of these state lands.
Wolf tag is $11.50 here in Idaho, limit 5 per person. Plus another 5 if you’re trapping. Not bad when you consider what the situation was just 5 years ago.
Maybe Trump is sending a subtle message to the great Russian Bear Putin!
Hmm, actually, perusing my hard copy of the hunting regs I no longer see the 5 per person limit.
We do have quotas in place though, to make sure the population doesn’t get low enough for the Greens to force them back onto the endangered species list.
Check that, the limit to 5 just got moved to a different spot. Still there.
It depends if the President mentioned any anti bear remarks while campaigning.
Schumer and Pelosi will be “outraged!”, I’m sure.
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