TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.) 



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5. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES FOR FUTURE MANAGEMENT BY AREA 70 



Cabinet- Yaak Recovery Zone and Surrounding Areas 70 



Alternative 1 . Continue Existing Program 71 



Alternative 2. Accelerated Recovery - FWPs preferred alternative 71 



Alternative 3. Endangered Status 72 



Northern Continental Divide Recovery Zone and Surrounding Areas 73 



Alternative 1. Continue Existing Program - FWPs preferred alternative 74 



Alternative 2. Accelerated Recovery 74 



Alternative 3. Reduce Recovery Efforts 75 



Bitterroot Recoverv Zone and Surrounding Area 75 



Alternative 1. Preparatory Planning - FWPs preferred alternative 77 



Alternative 2. No Action 77 



Alternative 3. Accelerated Recovery Through Reintroduction 78 



Short Term and Long Term Impacts 78 



Cumulative Impacts 80 



Mitigation 81 



Irreversible and Irretrievable Resource Commitments 81 



GLOSSARY 83 



LITERATURE USED TO ASSIST IN PREPARATION OF THIS PLAN 85 



LIST OF TABLES 



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Table I. Geographic size and selected human population attributes of the 17 counties in 



the grizzly bear planning area II 



Table 2. Selected agricultural attributes of the 17 counties in the grizzly bear conservation 



management planning area 13 



Table 3. Minimum density estimates for grizzly bears in the NCDE from previous 



programmatic EISs 24 



Table 4. NCDE recoverv zone grizzlv bear population and parameters including 



minimum unduplicated counts of females with cubs (FWCs), distribution of 



females with young and human-caused mortality, 1997-2004 26 



Table 5. Status of the NCDE recoverv zone during 1999-2004 in relation to demographic 



recovery targets from the grizzly bear recovery plan (USFWS 1993) 26 



Table 6. Cabinet-Yaak recovery zone grizzly bear population and parameter including 



minimum unduplicated counts of females with cubs (FWCs) and known human- 

 caused mortality, 1988-2004 28 



Table 7. Status of the Cabinet-Yaak recovery zone during 1999-2004 in relation to 



demographic recovery targets from the grizzly bear recovery plan (USFWS 



1993) 28 



Table 8. F WP Western Montana Grizzly Bear Management Plan expenses 67 



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