Before the white man came, 50,000 grizzly bears ranged from Texas to Oregon. Today, approximately 1,000 survive in the lower 48 states as a result of hunting, poaching, and encroachment on their habitat. In the 1960s, Hotelkeepers used to put food out for the bears until National Park Service issued a decree stating the animals could no longer be fed by the public. The bears began to look for food in old dump sites, campgrounds, and outside the parks until closed and were shot for showing up. Conservationists must devise a solution or grizzlies will eventually disappear.
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