{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2022/11/17/id-f4d7ca55-d5ea-477c-b230-ae4844068b59/", "Idaho Delegation Urges Fish and Wildlife Service to Review Idaho Petition to Delist Grizzly Bear", "2022-11-17", "2022", "2022-11", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Contact:\n\nDaniel Tellez\n\n202-225-6611\n\ndaniel.tellez@mail.house.gov\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director Martha Williams demanding a response to Idaho\u2019s grizzly bear delisting petition.\n\n\u201cIdahoans have a unique interest in the delisting of the grizzly bear due to a recent and significant increase in depredation events within the state,\u201d the Delegation wrote. \u201cOver the past five years, Idaho\u2019s Boundary and Bonner Counties annually experienced two to three grizzly bear depredation events. This year that number was 21.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs grizzly bear populations continue to meet and exceed recovery targets, human-bear interactions will also increase,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cPending resolution of Idaho\u2019s petition to delist the grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states, we request that USFWS devote more of the resources that are currently allocated to preventing human-bear interactions on the regional scale to Idaho.\u201d\n\nTo read the full letter, click here.\n\nBackground: The grizzly bear was first listed as threatened in 1975. In 2017, the USFWS removed the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of the grizzly bear from the endangered species list, citing a significant increase in bear populations and a doubling of their range land. In September 2018, a federal judge in Montana ruled to put the grizzly bear back on the endangered species list. The state of Wyoming appealed the decision, and in July 2020 a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the continued protections for the grizzly bear. The State of Idaho submitted a petition to the USFWS on March 9, 2022 to delist the grizzly bear in the \u201cLower 48\u201d United States. The agency has failed to review the petition within the 90-day timeframe required by the Endangered Species Act and has still not responded to Idaho\u2019s petition.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:24:37Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://fulcher.house.gov/2022/11/17/id-f4d7ca55-d5ea-477c-b230-ae4844068b59/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9221229702234268, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}