The last few years have yielded recorded high mortality for our Yellowstone grizzly bears. Further, the population is in decline. Official estimates for 2014, 2015 and 2016 were 757, 717 and 690 respectively. Nonetheless, delisting marches ahead because the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) claims that it "cannot conclude the population declined between 2014 and 2016" based on, not on objective science, but on values, preferences and politics! (Read more on this topic at GrizzlyTimes)
Time to call out the United States Geological Society, who puts out the annual reports and compiles the scientific data, for playing politics instead of practicing objective science!
Please call, email, tweet, leave Facebook comments for the following USGS officials.
Here is the basic message: Please approach grizzly data objectively, not through a political lens! What does the data objectively prove with regard to population growth for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016? How can you NOT conclude that the population is declining - yet still conclude that it makes sense to delist this population?
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Frank Van Manen
Suzanne Kimball
Richard Ferrero
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Frank Van Manen 406-994-5043
Suzanne Kimball and Richard Ferrero (you can also leave a comment with operator) 703-648-7412
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