Yellowstone grizzly range contracts by 4%
A grizzly bear at Yellowstone’s Soda Butte Creek in July 2020. (Photo by Jim Peaco/National Park Service)
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s grizzly population continues to stagnate geographically, a relatively new trend that wildlife managers say is related to bears saturating “suitable habitat” where the species is tolerated.
That finding is described in a new and first-ever rangewide report summarizing where grizzly bears are found in the Lower 48.