Laura Lundquist

(Missoula Current) The inter-agency organization that oversees grizzly bear recovery has lost time, due to the government shutdown, and maybe employees, so it can’t update the public as it has in years past. Conversely, the public can’t bring up potential problems.

Next week, the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee was scheduled to have its executive business meeting, when federal and state agencies normally discuss the past year’s population trends, including grizzly deaths, and various efforts to better manage bears and people. But that won’t happen this year, maybe for the first time since the 1980s. A note on the IBGC webpage says 2025 meetings have been postponed.

In addition, the subcommittees that oversee each of the five grizzly recovery areas usually meet in

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