Biden Administration Wants Grizzlies Back in the Cascades – IOTW Report

Biden Administration Wants Grizzlies Back in the Cascades

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The Biden administration submitted a notice of intent to prepare Washington state’s North Cascades ecosystem for grizzly bear restoration. According to the notice submitted Thursday, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife are jointly preparing an environmental impact statement for the North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Restoration Plan to determine how to restore the species to its historical range. More

20 Comments on Biden Administration Wants Grizzlies Back in the Cascades

  1. That’s a great idea until they are in your backyard. Granted that’s fairly remote country but it’s probably as poorly thought out as trying to get a pack of wolves to behave in a civilized environment.

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  2. They might want to look up what the wolf packs are doing here first,
    deer and elk are both down in numbers not to mention what the cougars are doing to them also. Livestock are being killed in large numbers and not reported on the news “because save the wolves”.
    We have one of the last Woodland Caribou herds in the lower 48 and the wolves are killing them. Oops they are all gone had to move them because of wolves and bears.

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  3. Wash. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife just euthanized a fairly large black bear that had been roaming around in a N. Spokane suburb on Thursday that was getting into people’s garbage and walking up to their back porch sliding doors and looking inside some houses. They had caught the bear on video and decided to kill it rather than relocate it back into the woods further North. And yes, we do see occasional wildlife around here even in the city and in the Spokane valley, lots of deer, wild turkeys, I even had a large moose walk down my street next to my house well within the city limits a few years ago early in one Sunday morning about 6 AM on his way down towards the Spokane River. The only reason I saw the moose was because my female golden retriever Indie was outside in our fenced backyard and barking up a storm as the moose wandered by. I immediately brought the dog back into the house. And I didn’t even mention the smaller critters like skunks, racoons and even a couple of chipmunks under my back deck which totally surprised me. At least we don’t have possums like I’ve seen in my brother’s neighborhood in the Northern part of Seattle.

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  4. It bears repeating:
    A Canadian park ranger is giving some hikers a warning about bears, “Black bears on their own usually are not a problem. They avoid contact with humans so we suggest you attach small bells to your rucksacks, give the bears time to get out of your way, and carry pepper spray, just in case.
    However, grizzly bears are extremely dangerous. If you see any grizzly-bear droppings leave the area immediately.”
    “So how do we know if they’re grizzly bear droppings?” asks one of the hikers.
    “It’s easy,” replies the ranger. “They’re full of small bells and smell of pepper spray.”

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