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Ninth Circuit upholds temporary protections for grizzly bears in ongoing wolf trapping casetinyurl.com/52r2ujjjOn April 23, 2024, a federal court upheld a preliminary injunction issued in November to protect grizzlies from wolf trapping and snaring in Montana during times when the bears are likely to be out of their dens. The current distribution of grizzly bears in Montana overlaps almost entirely with areas where the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission allows wolf trapping and snaring.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely denied the State of Montana’s appeal, agreeing with the federal district court judge that there was a reasonably certain threat of imminent harm to grizzlies had the challenged wolf trapping and snaring season approved by the state last August proceeded as planned. The lawsuit is proceeding in federal district court in Missoula.Without the preliminary injunction, wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat would have started as early as November 27, 2023 and continued through March 15 of this year. Per the injunction, the season ended February 15, meaning that Montana’s grizzly bears emerged from their dens this year to a much safer landscape.The preliminary injunction, which came just days before wolf trapping and snaring was set to begin, was issued in response to a motion filed by the Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force and WildEarth Guardians on September 22, 2023. In this lawsuit, the plaintiffs show that the State of Montana is violating the federal Endangered Species Act by permitting indiscriminate steel leghold traps and strangulation snares to be set in known grizzly bear habitat during the non-denning seasons. ... See MoreSee Less

Ninth Circuit upholds temporary protections for grizzly bears in ongoing wolf trapping case

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State of Montana’s wolf regulations harm grizzly bear recovery

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13 hours ago

We agree. “The time to ban the use of snowmobiles and other vehicles to harm or kill wildlife on federal lands is now!”Following the incident in Wyoming, over 60 conservation groups in North America have called on the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to ban the use of snowmobiles or other vehicles to harm or kill wildlife on federal lands.The international outcry has led to broader calls for federal agencies to prevent this form of cruelty from taking place on public lands. Despite public officials' claims that recent acts of animal cruelty are isolated incidents, the reality is that these incidents re a direct result of state laws that legally permit this treatment of wildlife.The time to ban the use of snowmobiles and other vehicles to harm or kill wildlife on federal lands is now! ... See MoreSee Less

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