According to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST), which serves as the official government repository for information on dead grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), 73 Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears are dead, most by human hands — breaking the all-time record set in 2024 of 72. Source: IGBST provisional dead bear database, as summarized in this article. The current death rate is unsustainably high and threatens to reverse the hard-fought progress