Action timeline

March 29, 2007 – Despite the concurrent declines of several different grizzly foods, habitat loss, and genetic problems, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed Yellowstone-area grizzlies from the protected list of threatened and endangered species. The Center had submitted comments urging the Service not to remove these bears from the threatened species list, outlining their still-precarious situation — but to no avail.

June 4, 2007 – The Center joined six other conservation groups in filing suit to restore the threatened status to the Yellowstone grizzlies. The Center also submitted comments requesting that the Fish and Wildlife Service revise the 1993 grizzly bear recovery plan, identify new recovery areas, designate critical habitat, and uplist the entire species from threatened to endangered.

June 25, 2007 – The Center filed suit against illegal sheep grazing in the Yellowstone ecosystem that jeopardizes grizzly bears and other imperiled carnivores.

April 6, 2010 – In response to a lawsuit and comments submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project, the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in eastern Idaho, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, issued a decision to halt the grazing of sheep on about 7,500 acres of vital grizzly-bear habitat in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.