Within the first few hours of grizzly bear 399’s inaugural 2019 public appearance, photographer Tom Mangelsen caught a glimpse of one of her cubs somersaulting through the snow down a steep hillside.
“No stranger to flaunting state control over federal oversight, Wyoming lawmakers passed legislation that would by all intent allow a grizzly bear hunting season even as the animal is under federal protection.”
U.S. government attorneys filed notice Friday that they are appealing a court ruling that blocked the first public hunts of grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies in decades.
Two days ahead of a major court date, backers of keeping grizzly bears on the Endangered Species List rolled out science, tradition and money to make their case.
As conservationists await a court date that could stall a proposed Sept. 1 Wyoming grizzly bear hunt, potential shooters last week took a mandatory two-hour grizzly bear ecology class that included instructions on how to make a clean kill.