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Three bills before Congress would de-list currently protected populations of large carnivores, including the Northern Continental Divide grizzly bears (HR 1419), the Yellowstone grizzly population (HR 1245) and gray wolves nationwide (HR 764).
Conservative lawmakers in the West are reviving efforts to delist certain populations of the grizzly bear and gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, and last week they made their case to remove federal protections before a U.S. House subcommittee.
Seated in the comfort of the confines of the Yellowstone building on the Northwest College Campus, hunters from across the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Cody Region were pretty calm as …
Conservative lawmakers in the West are reviving efforts to delist certain populations of the grizzly bear and gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, and last week they made their case to remove federal protections before a U.S. House subcommittee.
Congress is considering three bills that would sidestep the Endangered Species Act to de-list the Northern Continental Divide and Yellowstone grizzly bears, and all gray wolf populations. Erik Molvar, executive director of the Western Watersheds Project said the measures would undermine the Endangered Species Act, which requires the federal government to make listing decisions solely based on the best available science. "And what Congress is doing here is, it's trying to take away that decision-making authority from the scientists and give it to politicians in Congress who have no ...