A proposed rule from the US Fish and Wildlife Service aims to change direction on grizzly bear management in the lower 48. While the proposal acknowledges the need to connect isolated grizzly populations, the rule provides little to make that a reality.

Additionally, the proposed 4(d) rule exception would allow for greater harassment and killing of grizzly bears by federal and state agencies and even private landowners.

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The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to rescind the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, excluding habitat modification, degradation, and destruction from the definition of harm to a species. This would dismantle one of the express purposes of the Act, which is to "provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered [...] and threatened species depend may be conserved."

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