Grizzly Bear Recovery: Saving the Symbol of Wildness

The Great Grizzly Search is a collaborative effort to document the presence and distribution of grizzly bears within the the Bitterroot Mountains, the Salmon and Selway river drainages and adjacent mountain ranges. Click on the photo for more...

As many as 100,000 grizzlies once roamed the lower 48 states, but the arrival of European settlers, habitat destruction, extensive shooting, poisoning, and trapping campaigns reduced the grizzly populations to 1% of their former range. Less than 800 grizzlies exist today in the American Northern Rockies, mainly in and around Yellowstone and Glaci

Ensuring survival of the grizzly in the Northern Rockies is a major goal of Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Key to AWR's grizzly campaign are the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act and the Conservation Biology Alternative (CBA) to the government's grizzly reintroduction proposal for the Salmon-Selway Ecosystem.

The Great Grizzly Search is a collaborative effort to document the presence and distribution of grizzly bears within the the Bitterroot Mountains, the Salmon and Selway river drainages and adjacent mountain ranges.

Grizzly Recovery in the News:

• Wall Street Journal: Outlook Bearish!
  The Great Grizzly Search was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article. You can also read AWR's account of the first field trip of 2000
  
  
• Commentary on Grizzly Reintroduction from The Seattle Times
  
  
• Bitterroot Grizzly FEIS Released
  Read AWR's comments to USFWS
  
  
• Short overview of Grizzly Bear history and needs.
  
  
• Conservation Biology Alternative to Salmon-Selway Grizzly Recovery Plan and what it is an alternative to... the government's Bitterroot Grizzly Recovery Plan.
  
  
• Grizzly News, a sampling of press coverage on issues impacting the grizzly.
  
  
• Grizzly Articles from the Wild Rockies Networker
  
  
• "Grizzly War," a revealing look at the politics inside grizzly research and management.
  From High Country News
  
  
• Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), legislative hope for the Great Bear.