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Eight years after the U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded, after a year's study, that environmental laws were not hampering Border Patrol efforts, a House of Representatives subcommittee plans to revisit the matter.

While the Trump administration has blocked the National Park Service from working on a recovery plan for grizzly bears in the North Cascades Ecosystem and is moving to remove grizzlies in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem from Endangered Species Act protection, the provincial government in British Columbia has banned grizzly bear hunting.

As snow falls in the North Cascades of Washington state and the highway closes for another winter, life is slower and quieter at the Environmental Learning Center at the North Cascades Institute. After a busy summer and fall of teaching, the institute's naturalists are off for a well-earned break, some upriver staff head out on furlough, but learning continues at the organization's campus on Diablo Lake.