Grizzly Bears

Montana Senator Steve Daines pressed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Friday to finally remove grizzly bears from two ecosystems from the Endangered Species Act.

A challenge to the Flathead National Forest Plan by several environmental groups was heard on Thursday before Federal Judge Donald Molloy in the U.S. District Court in Missoula.

Biologists spotted the bear in northwestern Wyoming on Saturday. The sighting is one day earlier that the first grizzly sighting of 2019.

The Dept. of Interior is providing money to help manage grizzly bears in MT. Senator Daines delivered a speech emphasizing the need for grizzly management in the state.

On Tuesday night, Montana FWP staff was notified by the U.S. Forest Service of a possible bear carcass along the tracks railroad tracks southeast of Trego.

Montana FWP captured two grizzly bears in the Flathead Valley and moved them to remote sections of the Flathead National Forest.

Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte called in to the KGVO Montana Morning News on Wednesday to provide updates on several issues.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks officials report that a grizzly bear killed a calf early this week on a ranch near Two Dot, Montana.

Earthjustice, the environmental group whose motto is ‘The Earth Needs a Good Lawyer’, sent two attorneys to the Russell Courthouse in Missoula on Thursday to argue before federal Judge Dana Christensen to stop the upcoming grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming.

After public comments were considered, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has reaffirmed the delisting of Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act.