Groups including the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club say the 65 grizzlies that died in 2018 didn’t need to. They sent a letter to state officials urging them to act.

Some of the deaths were accidents: hunters who misidentified a grizzly for a black bear. Grizzly hunting is illegal, after a federal judge restored Endangered Species Act protections for the species in the fall. Others happened when hunters came across a grizzly unintentionally, and then shot it legally in self-defense. And then some bears were killed by ranchers because of conflict with their livestock.

The groups…