Zinke and Fielder are Wrong on Grizzlies and Wolverines

(August 23, 2025) We are 31 Montana professional wildlife biologists with more than 1,015 years of experience managing wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Idaho allows cowardly, dangerous bear baiting. It’s time to end it

(August 14, 2025) If you feed bears because you’re trying to photograph them, you’re likely to get busted. But feeding bears in 12 states and national forests in ten of those states is fine if you’re only trying to kill them.

Report: A New Vision for Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains

(February 20, 2025) Several conservation organizations and grizzly bear proponents have released their vision that bolsters support for a unified grizzly bear population within the Northern Rockies—offering a holistic framework for recovery, management, and sustainable coexistence between bears and people.

WildEarth Guardians’ Statement on the Cancellation of Grizzly Bear Hearings

(January 27, 20215) Events would have provided transparency, public learning, and engagement.

Statement on Fish & Wildlife Service’s Grizzly Bear Proposal

(January 8, 2025) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule to maintain federal protections for grizzly bears in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington, while removing protections for other Lower 48 populations. WildEarth Guardians responded, highlighting concerns about the implications for grizzly bear conservation.

‘Grizzly Bears Not Recovered’ Says Leading Biologist, 15 Regional & National Groups Petition for New Recovery Vision

(December 11, 2024) Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife Grizzly Coordinator updates his own 30-year-old Recovery Plan.

Grizzly Bear Deaths Underscore Need for More Wildlife Crossing Structures

(December 6, 2024) Montana is finally starting to make crossing structures and other wildlife accommodations more of a priority in highway projects

Keefover and Combs: Grizzly 399 was a bear for the ages

(November 7, 2024) She was 28 years old and dealt with aplomb the hordes of picture-taking tourists and repeated motherhood. When she was killed by a car a few weeks ago, the loss of Grizzly 399 left people all over the world shocked and saddened.

Guest column: Grizzly Bear Delisting: First as tragedy, now as farce

(January 26, 2024) Human intolerance, malevolence and habitat destruction spanning two centuries has caused the extermination of grizzly bears over 99% of its historical range.