# 2025-00325: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Grizzly Bear in the Lower-48 States

2025-00325, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Grizzly Bear in the Lower-48 States, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective 2025-01-15 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00325
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00325
- Title: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Grizzly Bear in the Lower-48 States
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: 2025-01-15
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## Summary

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed a request to create and remove a special grizzly bear group in the Greater Yellowstone area from protection. They found that this group doesn’t qualify as a separate population, so they won’t change its protected status right now. This decision, made in January 2025, keeps protections in place for grizzlies in the lower-48 states, ensuring their safety continues without new costs or deadlines.

## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 12-month finding on a petition to establish and delist a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) distinct population segment (DPS) of the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the lower-48 States. After a thorough review of the best scientific and commercial data available, we find that grizzly bears in the petitioned DPS do not, on their own, represent a valid DPS. Thus, we find that the petitioned action to establish and delist a GYE DPS is not warranted at this time.

## Effects PRIA read

- GYE Delisting Petition Denied; Protections Continue: mixed, low. On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that the petition to create and delist a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) distinct population segment (DPS) of grizzly bear is not warranted. That decision leaves the grizzly bear listed as a threatened entity in the lower-48 States a…
- Range Expansion Findings and Upcoming 2026 Rulemaking: mixed, medium. The Service reports that GYE occupied range grew about 4% from 2016–2022 and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem range grew about 19% in that period, with the two populations now about 98 kilometers (61 miles) apart and within dispersal distance. The Service also says it will complete a range…

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## Sources
- [2025-00325 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00325/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-12-month-finding-for-the-greater-yellowstone-ecosystem)
- [2025-00325 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00325.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00325 (as of 2026-06-11).