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Grizzly bears in Cascades generate mixed emotions

This grizzly bear was photographed by a backpacker in North Cascades National park in October, 2010. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts later confirmed it as a grizzly -- the first to be photographed in a half a century in the U.S. portion of the range. (Joe Sebille)
This grizzly bear was photographed by a backpacker in North Cascades National park in October, 2010. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts later confirmed it as a grizzly -- the first to be photographed in a half a century in the U.S. portion of the range. (Joe Sebille)

Updated March 10, 2015.

THREATENED SPECIES -- While there's support for reintroducing grizzly bears into the North Cascades to spark a regional recovery effort, the sentiment certainly isn't unanimous at the public meetings that are being conducted in communities along Washington's iconic mountain range.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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