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Biden Won’t Delist Grizzlies; Gordon Blasts Decision As “Politics, Not Biology”
Cowboy State Daily ^ | 01/08/2025 | Mark Heinz

Posted on 01/09/2025 11:21:37 AM PST by DFG

Grizzly bears in Wyoming and the rest of the Lower 48 will remain under endangered species protection, federal officials announced — a decision immediately blasted by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon.

In a statement released Wednesday just after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced its intention to keep grizzlies listed, Gordon implied it was a political move in the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration.

“It has always been clear the Biden administration had no intention of delisting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear,” Gordon says in the statement. “This latest move to keep a fully-recovered population on the Endangered Species List and eliminate the DPS (distinct population segment) confirms this decision is driven by politics and not biology.”

Others on both sides of the delisting debate also voiced strong reactions to Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.

Prominent Wyoming outdoorsman Guy Eastman said keeping grizzlies listed won’t actually help the bears.

As their numbers grow, the bears keep pushing into areas where conflict with humans is inevitable, he said.

“Poor bears, they’re so overpopulated. All they’re trying to do is find new habitat,” Eastman said. “News flash bears: there isn’t any. You’re overpopulated in every square inch of suitable grizzly habitat.”

Andrea Zaccardi, spokeswoman for the Bozeman, Montana-based Center for Biological Diversity, took the decision to keep grizzlies listed as good news.

“We’re relived that Fish and Wildlife Service finally followed the science and determined that grizzly bears still need federal protection,” she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bear; bears; grizzlies; grizzly; grizzlybear; grizzlybears; wyoming; yellowstone

1 posted on 01/09/2025 11:21:37 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

The fish and wildlife service is infested with anti’s


2 posted on 01/09/2025 11:30:20 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: DFG

What difference does it make? Biden holds the office for 10 more days, then nothing he did can’t be undone by Trump.


3 posted on 01/09/2025 11:37:30 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: DFG
When I lived in Wyoming, I remember cases of suvyeors and linemen for the power company being attacked and killed by grizzlies. They were't in the back country. They were just off a county road somewhere. I have no sentimental feeling toward bears. They are wild animals who not only will kill you, but they will eat you too.

4 posted on 01/09/2025 11:51:02 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

5 posted on 01/09/2025 11:56:42 AM PST by Bratch
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To: DFG

You need a “Lynx Hair Biologist” to explain it.


6 posted on 01/09/2025 12:11:58 PM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
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To: DFG

Meaningless.


7 posted on 01/09/2025 12:21:11 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I was hiking in the Tetons. People kept telling me there was a bear up the trail.

I’d seen plenty of bears when I lived in the Appalachian Mountains so I wasn’t bothered.

Then I saw him. That was the biggest black bear I ever saw. Then I realized he wasn’t a black bear.

Fortunately he was eating something he liked, turned and looked at me, then went back to eating.


8 posted on 01/09/2025 12:25:31 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Bratch

ROFLOL!


9 posted on 01/09/2025 12:30:13 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DFG
Grizzly range has been expanding dramatically the last few decades here in WY. This is another nonsense political decision, and I can only hope Trump is ready to sign a BIG stack of papers undoing all the crud that Biden has been inflicting on the nation lately. Also that his staffers are on the ball and aggressive about presenting all the necessary paperwork in short order. And then that they maintain the momentum in relentlessly disempowering the anti-democratic autocracy that has been ruling from Washington.

The motto "move fast and break things" comes to mind as what I'm hoping for in this new administration. There is a lot that needs to be broken.

10 posted on 01/09/2025 12:58:51 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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