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The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies [4] of the brown bear inhabiting North America. In addition to the mainland grizzly ( Ursus arctos horribilis ), other morphological forms of brown bear in North America are sometimes identified as grizzly bears.
Grizzly 399 (1996 – October 22, 2024) [1] was a grizzly bear living in Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, United States. [2] She was followed by as many as 40 wildlife photographers, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and millions of tourists came to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to see her and other grizzly bears.
The last California grizzly bear sighting was in 1924 and no specimens have been seen since. [29] A small brown bear population once lived in the northern parts of Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona. [30] This population is now extinct as the last known Mexican grizzly bear was shot in 1976. [31]
A grizzly bear wandered into an area of Wyoming where the predators ... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages grizzly bear populations, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department handles ...
In recent years, government officials in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, seeking to reclaim state management of their grizzly bear populations.
Before 1800, there were an estimated 50,000 grizzly bears living throughout 18 western States, including Wyoming, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. By 1975, the population in the 48 ...
A 1959-1970 bear study suggested a grizzly bear population size of about 176, later revised to about 229. [1] Later estimates have ranged as low as 136 and as high as 540; the most recent is a minimum estimate of 236, [ 1 ] but biologists think there may be as many as 1,000 bears in the ecosystem. [ 24 ]
The forest is home to the Grizzly bear, cougar, moose, tens of thousands of elk as well as the largest population of bighorn sheep in the contiguous U.S. The streams in the forest are considered to have some of the best game species fishing opportunities in the U.S. including Yellowstone cutthroat trout. More than 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of ...