Defenders' Experts
Grizzly Bear Background and Recovery
The grizzly bear (or brown bear) once ranged from from Alaska to Mexico, California to Ohio. Today small populations of grizzly bears can only be found in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and they may be a handful in Washington.
Grizzly bears reproduce very slowly and as a result it takes decades for their populations to rebound. Only bears in the Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem seem to be recovering, the other populations remain on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service has written recovery plans describing what needs to take place in each recovery zone to increase grizzly bears.
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