Idaho State Workers Fatally Shot Grizzly Mom and Cubs, Suit Says

Regional employees of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game illegally killed three federally protected grizzly bears, a conservation group alleged in a lawsuit.

Save the Yellowstone Grizzly claims that state employees shot and killed a female grizzly and her two cubs in November 2022 because they were close to areas inhabited by humans. The US Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t agree that the bears posed a human safety threat, but still authorized the killing, the suit says.

It’s illegal to harm or kill grizzly bears—which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act—except in cases of self defense, ...