Return of the Grizzly by Cat Urbigkit

Author:Cat Urbigkit
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510727489
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2018-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

While wildlife managers celebrated grizzly bear recovery, bear advocates headed to court to reinstitute protection for grizzlies.

While grizzly bear recovery was being argued in a federal courtroom, bear managers wrote in Yellowstone Science in 2008:

As the population of grizzly bears expanded in the ecosystem, bear density inside Yellowstone National Park also increased. Recent studies suggest that bears inside YNP are probably at carrying capacity, a term used to define the limits of available space, food, and other resources in the environment. As a population approaches this limit, juvenile mortality increases, females tend to initiate breeding later in life, and reproduction tends to decline. The study team has documented a decline in litter size as bear numbers increased, and a higher incidence of starvation and predation of cubs occurred inside YNP.76

Led by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, three separate lawsuits challenging the grizzly bear delisting were filed, and after two years of litigation, a 2009 federal court opinion found that:

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