The House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday advanced a slate of bills, including to delist the Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear, allow the killing of black vultures and limit restrictions on lead ammunition and tackle.
The Republican-controlled panel approved Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman’s H.R. 281, the “Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025,” 20-19 along party lines.
The legislation would require the Interior Department to reinstate a 2017 rule delisting the bear. The grizzly’s status under the Endangered Species Act has long been a tug-of-war between Western states and conservationists.
The first Trump administration delisted the grizzly, but was subsequently overruled by the courts. The Biden administration then upheld the bear’s status as a threatened species, allowing killing or capture — known as take — in limited circumstances but otherwise keeping them protected.
