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Feature | Endangered Species Act
Endangered No More The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law that made the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem whole. // By Mike Koshmrl In the fall of 1983, Brian Czech was an early-career U.S. Forest Service ranger patrolling his favorite place of all time, the Teton Wilderness, when he saw something he’d never seen before: a grizzly bear. The bruin was treading through six inches of fresh-fallen powder in the backcountry at Fox Park, a remote mountain meadow a mile south of the Yellowstone National Park border and eight miles west of the Continental…