There has been no confirmed evidence of a grizzly within the North Cascades Ecosystem in the U.S. since 1996
The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out.
Grizzlies are considered threatened in the Lower 48 and currently occupy four of six established recovery areas in parts of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and northeast Washington. The bears for the restoration project would come from areas with healthy populations. “We are going to once again see grizzly bears on the landscape, restoring an important thread in the fabric of the North Cascades,” said Don Striker, superintendent of North Cascades National Park Service Complex.Fragmented habitat due to rivers, highways and human influences make it unlikely that grizzlies would repopulate the region naturally.
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