Comment Extended on Southwest Montana Grizzly Bear Management Plan

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has extended comment to Sept. 30 on the draft of an updated conservation and management plan for grizzly bears in southwestern Montana. The draft plan, developed over the past year in conjunction with a programmatic environmental impact statement, addresses state management options once the area's more than 700 grizzly bears are removed from the federal list of threatened species. The programmatic EIS examines an array of issues and two possible alternatives—including no action. Comment was to end Sept. 16 but FWP extended the comment period to Sept....

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