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.
A federal judge’s decision to revoke the states’ authority to manage Yellowstone-area grizzly bears was met with expected cheers, jeers and challenges in the hours after it was announced.
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.