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Grizzly
Bear Recovery: Saving the Symbol of Wildness
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.
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... a
brief history of the Grizzly
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