We ought to build on that.

My legislation, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, H.R. 1245, would remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the Federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife.

But when we are talking about the numbers under the Endangered Species Act, we are concerned about the number of live animals, right?

Managing Wyoming's grizzly population is more effective to do at a local level, as is all species management.

No one was surprised when grizzly bear conflicts thereafter increased, with dramatic and devastating impacts on our ranching communities in Wyoming and Montana shortly thereafter.

So, for example, in Wyoming with the Canadian gray wolf, if the population goes down below a certain level, there is an immediate stop to any further hunting.

And that is why today we are asking for additional management tools for both me and that sow grizzly bear, so we don't have to raise our babies together.

Did you know in Wyoming, with a recovery goal of 100 wolves, we have over 350 Canadian gray wolves in Wyoming?

Mr. Servheen, you were questioned about one of the factors under the Endangered Species Act, and that factor being whether a recovery plan has an adequate regulatory mechanism for a particular species.

The science does not support keeping grizzly bears listed as a threatened species.

This bill will act as a legislative backstop to prevent going through this unnecessary litigation again.

Delisting grizzlies would return management to the states--a concept supported in writing by the Governors of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

Gun Owners of America and Second Amendment Hunters publicly supported grizzly delisting over one year ago, applaud Congresswoman Hageman for introducing the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2023.

This bill will act as a legislative backstop to prevent going through this unnecessary litigation again.

The Wyoming delegation sent you a letter on March 15, 2023, asking as to why we were excluded from the management commission and the 10-year strategy that you have put together.

Forty-eight percent of the surface estate in Wyoming is owned by the Federal Government, and 65 percent of our mineral estate is owned by the Federal Government.

It is through the creation of these types of projects that we have been able to create--and I will use the word again--the bounty that we have in the interior West.

The shift in focus of the Bureau of Reclamation from irrigation to environmental, what are the impacts of that?

The 1902 Reclamation Act was a visionary piece of legislation that recognized that the future of the United States required the development, management, and use of our natural resources, including our water and our real property.

We have also learned of the incredible benefits that these projects provide in relation to irrigation and what irrigation has done in terms of creating the bounty that we have in the interior Western United States.

So, when I come to a meeting like this or a hearing like this and we talk about water, I think one of the things that is incredibly important is that you have to understand that for the interior West especially, without irrigation…

Although tribes are sovereign governments, some suffer health, social, and economic disparities, as well as higher poverty rates in comparison to other non-Native communities.

For many Indian tribes and Alaskan Natives, real property holdings are the basis for social, cultural, and religious life and often their single most important economic resource.

Is the Federal Government involved in all of the decisions related to road building on your reservation?

Today, there are 574 federally recognized Indian tribes with a population of approximately 2.8 million American Indian and Alaskan Natives living in the United States.