Final conservation strategy for the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Area

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The future management of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population is envisioned as one in which the grizzly and its habitat are conserved as integral parts of the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA). Within the GYA, the grizzly bear population and its habitat will be managed utilizing a management approach that identifies a Primary Conservation Area (PCA) and adjacent areas where occupancy by grizzly bears is anticipated and acceptable. The PCA is the existing Yellowstone grizzly bear recovery zone as identified in the 1993 Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan (USFWS 1993); the PCA will replace the recovery zone boundary. In the Conservation Strategy (Strategy), management direction is described for both the PCA and adjacent areas within the GYA. The Strategy was developed to guide management and monitoring of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population and its habitat upon recovery and delisting. This approach will remain in place beyond recovery and delisting. Ongoing review and evaluation of the effectiveness of this Strategy will be done by the state and federal managers in the GYA, and the Strategy will be updated by the management agencies every five years or as necessary, allowing public comment in the updating process. The purpose of this Strategy and the state plans is to describe and summarize the coordinated efforts to manage the grizzly bear population and its habitat to ensure continued conservation in the GYA; to specify the population, habitat, and nuisance bear standards to maintain a recovered grizzly bear population for the foreseeable future; to document the regulatory mechanisms and legal authorities, policies, management, and monitoring programs that exist to maintain the recovered grizzly bear population; and to document the commitments of the participating agencies. The vision of the strategy includes maintaining the grizzly bear population and habitat conditions for the foreseeable future; allowing grizzly bears to expand into biologically suitable and socially acceptable areas; expanding public information and education efforts; managing grizzly bears as a game animal, with regulated hunting when and where appropriate.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Mammals

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
[ICST] Interagency Conservation Strategy Team. 2007. Final conservation strategy for the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Area. [place unknown]: US Fish and Wildlife Service. 86 p. [accessed 2015 Dec 3]. http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/grizzly/Conservation...