At least 50,000 grizzly bears ranged from Texas to Oregon, before the white man came. Today, less than 1,000 survive, due to 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 then began foraging of old dump sites; and the sites were abruptly closed. The bears began to look for food inside and out of campgrounds. Inevitably, bears were shot on sight; and now conservationists must devise a solution, or grizzlies will eventually disappear.
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