The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington.
The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out. Plans announced this week by the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service call for releasing three to seven bears a year for five to 10 years to achieve an initial population of 25. The aim is to eventually restore the population in the region to 200 bears within 60 to 100 years.
It's not clear when the restoration effort will begin, the Seattle Times reported. Fragmented habitat due to rivers, highways and human influences make it unlikely that grizzlies would repopulate the region naturally. According to the park service, killing by trappers, miners and bounty hunters during the 1800s removed most of the population in the North Cascades by 1860.
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