This remote village adjacent to North Cascades National Park is a tiny company town owned and operated by Seattle City Light—a utility that long ago built a succession of dams on the neighboring Skagit River to generate power for Washington State’s largest city.

The National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday a decision to “actively restore” grizzly bears to the North Cascades region of Washington state. For thousands of years,

Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascades mountain range, the federal government said this week — a decision that followed years of bitterly divided debate.

Grizzly bears are set to be introduced into Washington state's North Cascades ecosystem after being listed as 'threatened' since 1975.

The majority of these bears were killed by hunters and miners in the 1800s, a trend echoed across the U.S. as grizzlies were nearly wiped off the map.

In 1996, a Canadian researcher stumbled upon a female grizzly bear snacking on a bushel of berries in the U.S. portion of the North Cascades—a mountainous national park in northwest Washington that is roughly the size of Vermont.

After years of impassioned debate, grizzly bears are poised to make a comeback in the North Cascades mountain range of Washington state. The announcement by the federal government marks a significant milestone in conservation efforts,