Six conservation groups have sent a letter to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee urging members to develop new recommendations for avoiding conflict between bears, people and livestock, and also to evaluate how well a 2009 report was implemented. After a record number of grizzly bear deaths in 2018, the groups are calling for an update to a decade-old report on conflict prevention. There were 65 known grizzly deaths in 2018 and almost 250 since 2015, with nearly all of them from human-related causes. Bonnie Rice with the Sierra Club’s “Our Wild America” campaign notes the 2009 report still can be a good resource.
Rice urges the committee to implement a new report with additional recommendations before this year’s hunting season, when most deaths occur. The conservation groups want bear-management agencies to follow through with a 2009 report recommendation to create a database of bear deaths going back at least five years.
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