Add your name: Protect grizzly bears

Re: Docket No. FWS-R6-ES-2024-0186-0001

After decades of government-sponsored eradication efforts, the grizzly bear was once driven to the edge of extinction in the contiguous United States. Though the population has shown significant resilience, nearly tripling in size since being granted protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1975, scientists agree there is a long way to go.

In the shadow of climate change, it becomes especially critical that the currently isolated grizzly populations are given time and opportunities to move and connect, for the sake of genetic diversity and geographic flexibility as food sources are threatened by rising temperatures.

Though we support endangered species protections for grizzly bears across the entire contiguous U.S., we celebrate the USFWS’s proposed rule to maintain protections for grizzlies throughout the Northern Rockies and into Washington.

We believe that grizzly bears deserve a future in the Lower 48, and urge the USFWS to proceed with this proposal.