Grizzly bears translocated from NCDE to GYE, providing genetic augmentation

The subadult female grizzly bear wasn't hanging around to wait for the trap door to open all the way. She was done with confinement.

With the buzz of a drone above her and the Wyoming high country in front of her, she bounded out the culvert-shaped trap when the door was only halfway up. Before her was the wild heart of Wyoming, an entire state away from where she had lived just one day prior.

This female grizzly bear, all 204 pounds of her, represents a coordinated and intensive effort several years in the making to move a bear from the population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem...