Once, 50,000 grizzly bears ranged—Texas to Oregon; today, fewer than 1,000 survive in the continental states as a result of hunting, poaching and encroachment on their habitat. In the 1960s the National Park Service decreed the public no longer feed the animals and closed long foraged dump sites; hotelkeepers were not permitted to put food out for the foraging bears—inevitably shot—looking in campgrounds, outside parks. Conservationists must devise a solution or grizzlies will disappear.
Darcel and Matt