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Idaho delegation urges Fish and Wildlife Service to review Idaho petition to delist grizzly bear – Local News 8
WASHINGTON D.C. (KIFI) – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher despatched a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director Martha Williams demanding a response to Idaho’s grizzly bear delisting petition.
“Idahoans have a singular curiosity within the delisting of the grizzly bear as a result of a current and important enhance in depredation occasions inside the state,” the Delegation wrote. “Over the previous 5 years, Idaho’s Boundary and Bonner Counties yearly skilled two to a few grizzly bear depredation occasions. This yr that quantity was 21.”
“As grizzly bear populations proceed to fulfill and exceed restoration targets, human-bear interactions will even enhance,” the letter continued. “Pending decision of Idaho’s petition to delist the grizzly bear inhabitants within the decrease 48 states, we request that USFWS commit extra of the sources which might be presently allotted to stopping human-bear interactions on the regional scale to Idaho.”
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