grizzly bears

Montana wildlife managers this week launched a new site for tracking grizzly bear mortalities.

Montana will get nearly $72 million in federal funding to help repair aging infrastructure; A section of a popular hiking trail in Glacier National Park remains closed after a bear bit a hiker last week.

Briefs: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is set to appear before an oversight board to address 41 charges of professional misconduct; State lawmakers Tuesday finalized recommendations to ease overcrowding in the Montana State Prison; Food-conditioned grizzly killed near Libby.

Briefs: Bowhunters kill a charging grizzly bear near West Yellowstone; Low-risk offenders are unlikely to be arrested again after they’re enrolled in a new pretrial program in Missoula County.

Montana wildlife managers have released their final analysis of the environmental impacts of state management of grizzly bears.

Montana wildlife officials last week euthanized an adult male grizzly bear near Elliston. Officials say the bear became conditioned to human food sources.

Advocacy groups are asking a judge to order the federal government to draft a new assessment of the impact of relocating or killing grizzlies.

Two grizzly bears were trucked from northwest Montana to the Yellowstone ecosystem this week. The transfer is part of a multi-state effort to remove grizzlies from the Endangered Species list.

The Endangered Species Act helped bring the Yellowstone-area grizzly population back from the brink of extinction. It also sparked controversy over a question that looms over more species than just grizzly bears: How do we balance the needs of endangered wildlife with the needs of humans?

The federal government is expected to decide later this month whether to remove federal protections from some grizzly bear populations. The decision comes after years of legal debate about Endangered Species Act protections for the bears.