Improving grizzly bear genetic diversity a work in progress

POWELL — As news of translocations of two grizzly bears broke, few realized the amount of hard work — on the phone, on paper and in the wilderness — it takes to make such a feat happen.

It is touted as a step to increase genetic diversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s population of its most charismatic creature. But if you think all they had to do was load a couple bears in a truck and drive six to eight hours to release them in and near Yellowstone National Park, you’d be wrong.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s large carnivore team worked with its counterparts in the three stat...

 

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