The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council denounced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s revised grizzly bear listing. They also pushed back against the agency rejecting state petitions to delist grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act in the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystems. “This proposed rule and rejected delisting petitions do nothing other than move the goalposts for species recovery and deny sound science,” says NCBA Director of Government Affairs Garrett Edmonds. “Combining multiple distinct ecosystems into one giant population segment for a solitary apex predator further muddies the waters of what a species recovery looks like and only makes it harder for recovered species to be delisted in the future.” He also says by creating this brand-new barrier to recovery, the Biden administration is further weaponizing the Endangered Species Act and aiming it at rural communities on their way out the door.
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