The last confirmed sighting of a grizzly bear in the U.S. portion of the North Cascades ecosystem was in 1996. "The decision is the culmination of an Environmental Impact Statement process that ...

The designation is based on “extensive community engagement and conversations about how the return of a grizzly bear population in the North Cascades will be actively managed to address concerns ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also listed the Selway-Bitterroot area in Idaho and Montana and the North Cascades in Washington as critical recovery zones for these bears, though no known ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also listed the Selway-Bitterroot area in Idaho and Montana and the North Cascades in Washington as critical recovery zones for these bears, though no known ...

Grizzly bears are returning to the North Cascades in Washington State ... "As the months­long process played out, debate over human-­bear conflict revealed a surprising range of views about ...

Though this species’ history in the region extends back nearly 20,000 years, it took only a century of hunting and trapping to decimate the local grizzly population. The last legal kill of a bear ...

For more than 20 years, the Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service have worked on a plan to resuscitate grizzly bear populations as part of a nationwide recovery of this threatened species.

Nearly a year after deciding to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades Ecosystem, officials won't say exactly when the ...