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Grizzly monitoring rule hearings 
  
 Two public hearings on Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks' plans for counting and monitoring grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem remain before the Fish and Wildlife Commission considers its options for managing the bears as a big-game species. They include: 
  
 Sept. 26 – Missoula, Holiday Inn Downtown, 600 S. Pattee St., 6:30 p.m. 
  
 Sept. 27 – Kalispell, Flathead Valley Community College, Arts and Technology Building, 777 Grandview Drive, 6:30 p.m. 
  
 Comments can be submitted either orally or in writing during the hearings. Comments can also be submitted by mail to Wildlife Division, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, P.O. Box 200701, Helena, Montana, 59620-0701; or e-mail FWPGRIZZLYBEARARM@mt.gov, and must be received no later than Oct. 26, 2018. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption There are currently more than 700 grizzlies in the Yellowstone area 
  
 A US judge has ordered protection to be restored to grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, blocking plans for the first hunts there in nearly 30 years. 
  
 The Montana judge's ruling overturns the Trump administration's policy. 
  
 The judge sided with wildlife groups, who say grizzlies are under threat from climate change and loss of habitat. 
  
 Local ranchers argue the animals are killing their livestock and point to a growing number of attacks on people. 
  
 Grizzly numbers in the Yellowstone area have increased from 136 in 1975 to more than 700 today - in large part because of wildlife conservation measures, costing millions of dollars. 
  
 What did the judge say? 
  
 In his ruling on Monday, Judge Dana Christensen stated that the case was "not about the ethics of hunting". 
  
 This was, the judge continued, about whether the Fish and Wildlife Service considered threats to grizzlies' recovery in the long-term when it stripped the animals of their threatened species status in June 2017. 
  
 Jude Christensen said that in his view the answer was clearly "no". 
  
 How did state and federal officials react? 
  
 Wyoming Governor Matt Mead expressed disappointment. 
  
 "Grizzly bear recovery should be viewed as a conservation success story," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. 
  
 He added that the Endangered Species Act had a number of flaws, urging Congress to intervene and make changes. 
  
 Meanwhile, the Fish and Wildlife Service said it was reviewing the ruling and considering what steps to take. 
  
 Hunters in the states of Wyoming and Idaho had been planning to kill up to 23 grizzlies over the next few months. 
  
 It would have involved the first such hunts outside Alaska since 1991. 
  
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 BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades. 
  
 Wyoming and Idaho had been on the cusp of allowing hunters to kill up to 23 bears this fall. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen had twice delayed the hunts, and the latest order blocking them was due to expire later this week. The hunts would have been the first in U.S. outside Alaska since 1991. 
  
 Christensen wrote in his ruling that the case was "not about the ethics of hunting." Rather, he said, it was about whether federal officials adequately considered threats to the species' long-term recovery when they lifted protections for more than 700 bears living around Yellowstone National Park. 
  
 In the judge's view, the answer was no. 
  
 He noted that an estimated 50,000 bears once roamed the contiguous U.S. and said it would be "simplistic at best and disingenuous at worst" not to consider the status of grizzlies outside the Yellowstone region, one of the few areas where they have bounced back. 
  
 State and federal officials reacted with disappointment. Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead said the ruling provided further evidence of flaws in the Endangered Species Act and the need for Congress to make changes. 
  
 "Grizzly bear recovery should be viewed as a conservation success story," Mead said in a statement. 
  
 A bid to remove protections for the region's gray wolves ran into similar legal problems last decade. In that case, Congress intervened in 2011 to strip safeguards from the animals through legislation, opening the way to public wolf hunts. 
  
 Pressure to lift protections on bears and allow hunting has increased in recent years as the number of conflicts between bears and people increased. Most of those conflicts involve attacks on livestock but occasionally bears attack people, such as a Wyoming hunting guide killed earlier this month by a pair of grizzly bears. 
  
 The ruling marks a victory for wildlife advocates and Native American tribes that sued when the Interior Department last year revoked federal protections. They argued that the animals face continued threats from climate change and loss of habitat. 
  
 Tim Preso, an attorney with EarthJustice who represented many of the plaintiffs, said Christensen's ruling made clear that the government had moved too hastily to remove protections because bears are absent from much of their historical range. 
  
 "Putting the blinders on to everything other than Yellowstone grizzlies was illegal," he said. "We tried to get them to put on the brakes, but they refused to do that." 
  
 Hunting and agriculture groups and the National Rifle Association had intervened in the case seeking to keep management of grizzlies under state control. 
  
 Restoring protections will allow the grizzly population to grow unchecked, "endangering the lives and livelihoods of westerners who settled the region long ago," said Cody Wisniewski, representing the Wyoming Farm Bureau. 
  
 The grizzlies living in and around Yellowstone were classified as a threatened species in 1975 after most bears had been killed off early last century and the population was down to just 136 animals. 
  
 Government biologists contend Yellowstone's grizzlies are now thriving, have adapted to changes in their diet and are among the best-managed bears in the world. 
  
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Jennifer Strickland said the agency was reviewing Monday's ruling but stood behind its decision to lift protections. 
  
 The agency initially declared a successful recovery for the Yellowstone population in 2007, but a federal judge ordered protections to remain while wildlife officials studied whether the decline of a major food source — whitebark pine seeds — could threaten the bears' survival. 
  
 The Fish and Wildlife Service concluded last year it had addressed that and all other threats and said the grizzlies were no longer a threatened species requiring restrictive federal protections for them and their habitat. 
  
 That decision turned management of the bears over to the states, which agreed on a plan that set hunting quotas based on the number of deaths each year to ensure the population stays above 600 animals. 
  
 The federal agency has been moving toward lifting federal protections for another group of about 1,000 bears living in Montana's Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness, but it first wanted to see how Christensen ruled on the Yellowstone case. 
  
 Plaintiffs' attorney Matthew Bishop with the Western Environmental Law Center said the agency should reconsider those plans in light of Christensen's ruling. 
  
 "The idea of recovering grizzly bears in the Lower 48 should still be on the table. They shouldn't get away with this piecemeal delisting approach," Bishop said. 
  
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 Associated Press writers Matt Volz in Helena and Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyoming contributed to this story. 
  
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 Follow Matthew Brown on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MatthewBrownAP . |||||
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Score one for the bears: A judge has restored protection for a group of around 700 grizzly bears living around Yellowstone National Park, meaning Wyoming and Idaho will have to call off the first bear hunts planned in the lower 48 states in nearly 30 years. Judge Dana Christensen, siding with wildlife groups against Trump administration policies, said the ruling was "not about the ethics of hunting," but about whether threats to the species' long-term survival had been considered when protections were lifted last year, the BBC reports. It would be "simplistic at best and disingenuous at worst" for federal authorities not to consider how removing protection would affect grizzly bears in other areas where populations have been recovering, Christensen wrote. Alliance for the Wild Rockies Director Michael Garrity tells the Billings Gazette that the bears' situation is comparable to an isolated town of 700 people where people become inbred after a few generations. "The same thing is happening to Yellowstone grizzlies," he says. "They can't be recovered until their population is reconnected to the grizzly bear population around Glacier Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness area." Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead was among the officials who reacted with disappointment, the AP reports. "Grizzly bear recovery should be viewed as a conservation success story," he said, arguing that the ruling shows why Congress should make changes to the Endangered Species Act.