In the months after Grizzly 1126F hit the ground in Wyoming two summers ago, the young translocated bear went on an impressive walkabout that had state biologists eagerly watching her movements.

And move she did.

“She moves everywhere,” said Dan Thompson, who leads large carnivore management for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Grizzly 1126F’s unique history ups the intrigue in her travels all over the map. The 4-year-old sow is one of two bears that were trucked south from Montana’s Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in July 2024, along with Grizzly 1129M, a male. The translocation, partly in response to a federal judge’s 2018 ruling, was intended to increase the genetic diversity of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s population of grizzlies, which remains geographically isola

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