The Conservation Biology Alternative for Grizzly Bear Population Restoration
in the Greater Salmon-Selway Region Central Idaho and Western Montana

II. PRIMARY MEANS of POPULATION REESTABLISHMENT

Under this alternative, the primary long-term means of grizzly bear population reestablishment in the Greater Salmon-Selway region will be by natural inmigration as a result of improved habitat conditions between this region and the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk regions. It is hoped that these naturally inmigrating bears will engage in reproductive activity with the remnant population of grizzly bears believed to still inhabit this region. This natural process of inmigration may be supplemented with human-aided translocations of grizzly bears from other regions into the Greater Salmon-Selway region in order to expedite population reestablishment.

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