Enviros file suit over plan that would allow grizzly bears to be killed on Bridger-Teton NF

(CN) — Environmentalists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday in a bid to stop a plan that allows for 72 grizzly bears to be killed in a national forest near Yellowstone National Park.

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club teamed up to file the suit in federal court in the District of Columbia, saying the establishment of a livestock grazing area in the Bridger-Teton National Forest violates the Endangered Species Act.

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-sued-for-letting-grizzlies-die-with-yellowstone-grazing-plan/

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