grizzly bears

The death of even one or two female grizzly bears in the region could be devastating for a recovering bear population.

In Yellowstone National Park and areas just outside the park, at least 72 grizzly bears have died in 2025, mostly at the hands of humans.

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem trends — which include another high mortality year — are not a cause for concern, federal and state grizzly bear managers say.

The inter-agency organization that oversees grizzly bear recovery has lost time, due to the government shutdown, and maybe employees, so it can’t update the public as it has in years past.

Two grizzlies might be either injured or dead after being shot by hunters northeast of Seeley Lake.

Mike Garrity writes, "Decades of logging, road building and motorized recreation have fragmented grizzly habitat and limited recovery.

The Forest Service didn't "err on the side of the bear" when it left out illegal road use from the project assessment.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is anticipating a federal decision to transfer full responsibility for grizzly bears to the state and continues to consider corner-crossing to be trespassing, according to FWP’s director.

Conservation groups want to block a 10- to 15-year project intended to reduce wildfire risk and thin forests in a wildlife area near Missoula.

It's back to the drawing board for the Forest Service after a judge found its plan failed to assess impacts on grizzly habitat.