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 \nDoors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available
  for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.\n\nGrizzly bears roa
 med the North Cascades region for thousands of years as a key part of the 
 ecosystem. They distributed native plant seeds and kept other wildlife pop
 ulations in balance. Since then\, populations declined primarily due to di
 rect killing by humans. The last confirmed sighting of a grizzly bear in t
 he U.S. portion of the North Cascades ecosystem was in 1996.  In April 202
 4\, the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) d
 ecided that restoring grizzly bears to the North Cascades ecosystem (NCE) 
 would be undertaken by relocating grizzly bears from other ecosystems. USF
 WS designated North Cascades grizzly bears as a nonessential experimental 
 population under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act. This designa
 tion provides authorities and land managers with additional tools for mana
 gement that would not otherwise be available under existing Endangered Spe
 cies Act regulations. National Park Service Wildlife Biologist Dr. Jason R
 ansom will discuss the ecology of grizzly bears in the NCE\, what the rest
 oration process looks like moving forward\, and best practices for coexist
 ing with both black bears and grizzly bears in the Cascades. \n\nAbout the
  presenter:\n\nDr. Jason Ransom (he/him) is a National Park Service Wildli
 fe Biologist\, and the Wildlife Program Lead for North Cascades National P
 ark Service Complex. He is the NPS project lead for grizzly bear restorati
 on in the North Cascades and the project lead on Pacific fisher restoratio
 n in the North and South Cascades. Currently\, his other research and cons
 ervation work focuses on lynx\, wolves\, marmots\, mountain goats\, and bi
 rds in the park complex. Jason is a member of the International Union of C
 onservation and Nature – Species Survival Commission\, the Interagency Gri
 zzly Bear Commission North Cascades technical team\, and Affiliate Faculty
  at Washington State University.
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DESCRIPTION:Streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZVMVlkbTRk\n\n
 Doors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available f
 or purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.\n\nGrizzly bears roame
 d the North Cascades region for thousands of years as a key part of the ec
 osystem. They distributed native plant seeds and kept other wildlife popul
 ations in balance. Since then\, populations declined primarily due to dire
 ct killing by humans. The last confirmed sighting of a grizzly bear in the
  U.S. portion of the North Cascades ecosystem was in 1996.  In April 2024\
 , the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) dec
 ided that restoring grizzly bears to the North Cascades ecosystem (NCE) wo
 uld be undertaken by relocating grizzly bears from other ecosystems. USFWS
  designated North Cascades grizzly bears as a nonessential experimental po
 pulation under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act. This designati
 on provides authorities and land managers with additional tools for manage
 ment that would not otherwise be available under existing Endangered Speci
 es Act regulations. National Park Service Wildlife Biologist Dr. Jason Ran
 som will discuss the ecology of grizzly bears in the NCE\, what the restor
 ation process looks like moving forward\, and best practices for coexistin
 g with both black bears and grizzly bears in the Cascades. \n\nAbout the p
 resenter:\n\nDr. Jason Ransom (he/him) is a National Park Service Wildlife
  Biologist\, and the Wildlife Program Lead for North Cascades National Par
 k Service Complex. He is the NPS project lead for grizzly bear restoration
  in the North Cascades and the project lead on Pacific fisher restoration 
 in the North and South Cascades. Currently\, his other research and conser
 vation work focuses on lynx\, wolves\, marmots\, mountain goats\, and bird
 s in the park complex. Jason is a member of the International Union of Con
 servation and Nature – Species Survival Commission\, the Interagency Grizz
 ly Bear Commission North Cascades technical team\, and Affiliate Faculty a
 t Washington State University.
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LOCATION:HYBRID EVENT: WRI's Red Barn 347 Division Street\, Leavenworth\, W
 A 98826 or livestream via our YouTube Channel
SUMMARY:Red Barn Event - Grizzly Bear Restoration
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