Y2U Files Lawsuit to Protect Grizzly Bears

Greater Yellowstone grizzly. Photo: National Park Service.|||| Greater Yellowstone grizzly. Photo: National Park Service.|||| ||||

On March 31st , 2020, Yellowstone to Uintas Connection, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, and our allies, filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service for the 2019 decision to allow 72 federally-protected grizzly bears to be killed for the sake of public lands livestock grazing operations in the Upper Green River area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.

Learn more about this ongoing issue, Upper Green River Area Rangeland #3049, and our other projects here: www.yellowstoneuintas.org/issues/science