Public comments on grizzlies return ignored
If you were one of about 127,000 people who submitted comments or attended meetings — including a well-attended one earlier this year in Darrington — regarding a proposal to reintroduce small numbers of grizzly bears into the North Cascades National Park and its surrounding ecosystem, the Trump administration has a message for you:
Thanks, but never mind.
Whether you spoke in favor or against the proposal, your comments will now be shelved — disregarded without further consideration — following the decision by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to shut down a North Cascades National Park committee’s review of an environmental impact statement for four scenarios that sought to slowly restore a small self-sustaining population of grizzly bears to the North Cascades, according to recent reports in The Missoulian and The Herald.
Karen Taylor-Goodrich, superintendent for the national park, told the Missoulian that the park’s Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee was in the process of evaluating public comments that had been collected following release of a draft of the impact statement when she received Zinke’s order, which also stalled discussions with Canadian wildlife managers regarding grizzly recovery efforts in the ecosystem’s British Columbia reaches.
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