Wyoming was on the verge of holding the first trophy hunting season for grizzlies in decades last fall, and only an eleventh-hour injunction won by the HSUS and our partners stopped what would have been the needless slaughter of 23 bears in that first season alone. Photo by Don Getty

by Kitty Block

Wyoming’s crusade to declare open season on grizzly bears hit an unprecedented low this week when Gov. Mark Gordon signed into law a statute that gives state officials the authority to open a trophy hunting season on grizzly bears and relocate bears to other states without federal authorization. The move from Wyoming comes in defiance of a federal court ruling last year, in response to a lawsuit brought by the Humane Society of the United States and our allies, that restored Endangered Species Act protections to grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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