Federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region of Washington

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: Los Angeles Times

April 26, 2024 7:17 AM PT


SEATTLE — The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out.

Plans announced this week by the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service call for releasing three to seven bears a year for five to 10 years to achieve an initial population of 25. The aim is to eventually restore the population in the region to 200 bears within 60 to 100 years.

Grizzlies are considered threatened in the Lower 48 states and currently occupy four of six established recovery areas in parts of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and northeast Washington. The bears for the restoration project would come from areas with healthy populations.

There has been no confirmed evidence of a grizzly within the North Cascades Ecosystem in the U.S. since 1996, according to the agencies. The greater North Cascades Ecosystem extends into Canada but the plan focuses on the U.S. side. “We are going to once again see grizzly bears on the landscape, restoring an important thread in the fabric of the North Cascades,” said Don Striker, superintendent of North Cascades National Park Service Complex.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-26/the-federal-government-plans-to-restore-grizzly-bears-to-the-north-cascades-region-of-washington

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Link to National Park Service NEWS RELEASE - Agencies announce decision to restore grizzly bears to North Cascades

[maxsolomon]

1. This story got locked in LBN yesterday.

"Not of national importance".

Since it's a National Park, I disagree. I am really curious where they'd locate them - south of Hwy 20 or north. maybe both, but the feel of backpacking trips are going to change up there.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Yes - there was a Biden Administration announcement about this initiative that had a press release

because these animals have not been seen in the area in over 30 years.

[Permanut]

2. Farther south in Oregon..

The last grizzly bear sighting in Oregon was in 1937.

[Lasher]

4. Locking.

Please don't repost LBN articles we have already locked.