Before 1800, as many as 50,000 grizzly bears were believed to live throughout 18 states from Washington south to Nevada and west to Minnesota and Texas. After the population dipped into the 700 ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear population in all of the lower 48 states as threatened in 1975. A grizzly in the woods at Yellowstone National Park.

Today, several conservation organizations and grizzly bear proponents released their vision that bolsters support for a unified grizzly bear population within the Northern Rockies—offering a ...