How Bureaucrats Keep Moving the Recovery Goal(posts) of the Endangered Species Act | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
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How Bureaucrats Keep Moving the Recovery Goal(posts) of the Endangered Species Act

March 23, 2023

In 2005, Wyoming grizzly bears reached the recovery threshold provided within the Endangered Species Act. Yet despite the backstops and tripwire mechanisms available to protect recovered species from declining into dangerous territory, they still remain on the endangered species list, even though there are now 500 more grizzly bears than originally required.

Bureaucrats continue to move the goalposts on what's a "successful" recovery beyond the requirements of the ESA, and people and livestock have died as a result. It's time to support the science and delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear.