At least 50,000 grizzly bears ranged from Texas to Oregon, today, no more than 1,000 survive in the lower 48 states. This is the result of 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 began to look for food in campgrounds and outside the parks as well. Inevitably, the bears began to be shot. Conservationists must devise a solution or grizzlies will eventually disappear.
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