Wyoming Game and Fish Department's new draft regulation would allow the killing of up to 24 grizzly bears.
More than 50,000 grizzly bears resided between the Pacific Ocean and the Great Plains in the early 1800s but their numbers dwindled down to only 136 by 1975, when they were listed as "threatened" under the federal Endangered Species Act. Their federally protected status allowed the population to increase to about 700 or more today. But, citing success in conservation efforts, the Trump administration delisted the bears in June, thus allowing states to open up hunting season on the animals.
We the undersigned call upon the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to cancel this hunt. It is unnecessary and cruel, and puts a strain on a species that is still threatened.
