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AWR Release

May 24, 1999

Delisting, Hunting Grizzly Bears could Threaten Populations,
Wilderness Habitat Essential to Grizzly Preservation

Contact: Mike Bader 406-721-5420, awr@wildrockies.org

MISSOULA--A new study describes the high value of wilderness habitat for grizzly bear recovery and found that of all grizzly deaths from all causes, approximately twice as many grizzly bears in the Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems died on non-wilderness lands as in wilderness. Wilderness, the study concludes, is a "source" habitat for grizzly bears, while the roaded landbase of non-wilderness lands are a "sink" habitat, meaning more bears die there than the local population can replace.

Read the summary of the report printed in the Wild Rockies Networker's Summer 1999 issue.

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