The designation is based on “extensive community engagement and conversations about how the return of a grizzly bear population in the North Cascades will be actively managed to address concerns ...

“It provides an expanded set of management tools in recognition that grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades is dependent on community tolerance of grizzly bears,” Thompson added. For the ...

Though this species’ history in the region extends back nearly 20,000 years, it took only a century of hunting and trapping to decimate the local grizzly population. The last legal kill of a bear ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also listed the Selway-Bitterroot area in Idaho and Montana and the North Cascades in Washington as critical recovery zones for these bears, though no known ...

Grizzly bears are returning to the North Cascades in Washington State ... "As the months­long process played out, debate over human-­bear conflict revealed a surprising range of views about ...

This summer we decided to visit again, and… Read more about Support Grizzly Bear Recovery in the North Cascades NPCA at Work Support Grizzly Bear Recovery in the North Cascades Help the threatened ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also listed the Selway-Bitterroot area in Idaho and Montana and the North Cascades in Washington as critical recovery zones for these bears, though no known ...