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As the threatened grizzly bear population grows, interactions with ranchers and cattle have prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to sign off on up to 72 bear kills over the next decade.

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s authorization of the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears on public land just outside of Yellowstone National Park violated federal law.

A unanimous 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act in 2019 when it authorized the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears in part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem south of Yellowstone National Park and east of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Lawmakers held the first hearing on a bill that has a solid shot at passage. New York’s approach to cannabis equity came up during the hearing, which often focused on local control and youth use.

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Jonathan Ratner wasn’t pleased to read a public notice that the Bridger-Teton National Forest is looking to change how it protects wild bighorn sheep from catastrophic diseases spread by domestic sheep. A former employee of the 3.4-million-acre forest, Ratner now watchdogs the Bridger-Teton for Western Watersheds Project, an advocacy group that’s fought public lands livestock grazing for decades. He sees the national forest’s proposed revision to its 1991 Forest Plan as doing the...