Ranchers Brace for Impact as Grizzlies Reintroduced in Washington’s North Cascades

“It doesn’t matter what we say, they’re just going to do what they want to do anyway."

Federal agencies have begun the process of relocating grizzly bears from the Rocky Mountains and interior British Columbia to the North Cascades mountain range in Washington state–an area where the last grizzly sighting was 1996.

The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service signed the agreement to reintroduce grizzlies to Washington ear…