At least 50,000 grizzly bears ranged from Texas to Oregon before the white man came. Today, no more than 1,000 survive in the lower 48 states resulting from hunting, poaching, and encroachment on their habitat. In the 1960s, the National Park Service issued a decree stating that the animals could no longer be fed by the public. The bears had long foraged in old dump sites which were abruptly closed. They began to look for food in campgrounds and outside the parks. Inevitably, the bears began to be shot. Conservationists must devise a solution or the grizzly will eventually disappear.
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Lindsay Almquist
Katie Fulton