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A proposed Yellowstone grizzly hunt in Idaho and Wyoming was blocked for two weeks by U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen, who ruled more consideration was needed about the decision to delist the bears by the federal government and turn management over to the states.

The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will be trapping grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem starting this weekend.

Federal officials are making a surprising argument in opposing the addition of Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears from the Endangered Species List: They say putting the grizzlies back on the list gives them less protection under the law.

Another legal salvo has been fired in the controversial wolf-management plan proposed earlier this year, as the Greater Yellowstone Coalition filed its own lawsuit opposing the removal of the wolf from the Endangered Species list.