KEY POINTS

Bills in Congress seek to remove for grizzly bears and gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act.

Nationwide polling shows overwhelming support for keeping federal protections for the predators.

Three-fourths of conservatives support maintaining endangered status for grizzles and wolves.

Congress is considering three separate bills that would delist grizzly bears and gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act.

Two are stand-alone pieces of legislation to delist the predators and remove protections — one for wolves and the other for grizzlies — that are working their way through both the House and Senate.

The other is a Department of the Interior funding bill in the House that includes riders that would delist bears and wolves.

Grizzly bears are listed as threatened und

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