From the Friday, March 23, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
The federal government’s announcement that the Greater Yellowstone population of grizzly bears will be taken off the Endangered Species list predictably raises questions about delisting the Northern Continental Divide population.
The grizzly bear population that inhabits lands in and around Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex is larger than the isolated Yellowstone population, and it is connected to grizzly bears in Canada. But state and federal wildlife officials agree that population is years from being considered for delisting.
“We can understand why [the Yellowstone delisting] would create an expectation from the public here ... but the situation is different,” said John Fraley, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks public information officer for Northwest Montana.
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