Tag: grizzly bear

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines led his colleagues in sending a bicameral letter today to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raising concerns with a Biden-era policy that unnecessarily slows the grizzly bear delisting process by creating a single recovery zone that stretches from Washington State to Eastern Montana. Senators Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Representatives Ryan Zinke (MT-01), Troy Downing (MT-02), Harriet Hageman (WY), Russ Fulcher (ID-01), and Mike Simpson (ID-02) joined Daines in sending the letter. “In early January, the Biden Administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service

Slams Biden Administration for Moving the Goalposts on Recovery U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement today after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied Montana and Wyoming’s petition to delist the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems. “Today’s announcement is incredibly frustrating for Montana. For decades, Montana has followed the science and as a result, the bear has more than recovered in the Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems. Continuing to move the goalposts on recovery is only harming the bear and putting our Montanan communities at risk. This is