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March 21, 2025
NOW HIRING! FOC Seeks Executive Director

Ready to lead? FOC is hiring an executive director.

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March 13, 2025
Northern Rockies grizzly bear rule - March 2025

The USFWS is proposing new rules for guiding grizzly bear management. Comments are due March 17th, 2025.

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March 6, 2025
Grizzly Bear Recovery in Idaho

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is changing direction on grizzly management in the Lower 48. FOC and allies have crafted a vision for what that recovery might look like in the Northern Rockies.

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August 6, 2024
Species Spotlight: Pacific Lamprey

This article was first published in the Spring 2024 edition of the Clearwater Defender. You can have the Defender delivered straight to your house when you become an FOC member. Natural History Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) are eel-shaped jawless fish. Lamprey aren’t actually eels, but a kind of very primitive cartiliginous fish, like sharks and […]

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August 6, 2024
Grizzly bear recovery: The Natural Way

NOTE: This article was published in the Spring 2024 edition of the Clearwater Defender, and is now somewhat dated. If you are interested in receiving articles like these to your home or inbox, consider becoming a member here. Grizzlies in the Bitterroot Ecosystem In last summer’s Defender (summer 2023) we reported on the results of […]

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August 6, 2024
FOC Sues for Western Wolves (April 2024)

On April 8, wildlife advocacy and conservation groups including Friends of the Clearwater filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Montana, intending to gain protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the gray wolf in the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. This action comes on the heels of the Feb. 7 […]

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