![]() | Grizzly West: A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West Subjects: Grizzly bear -- Reintroduction -- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.); Wildlife conservation -- Political aspects -- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.); Environmentalists and the timber industry do not often collaborate, but in the years immediately following gray wolf reintroduction in the interior American West, a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana brought these odd bedfellows together. The partnership won praise from diverse interests across the country and in 2000 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan for reintroduction. When the Bush Administration took office, however, it promptly shelved the project.
Michael J. Dax lives and writes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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