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Carnivores play an integral role maintaining healthy ecosystems by regulating deer and elk, as well as smaller mammal, populations. Most of these species need large areas of land to meet all of their food and habitat requirements. For this reason, carnivores, especially wide-ranging species such as grizzly bears, are considered "umbrella" species. By protecting large wild areas for predators to live and roam, we are, in effect, saving a place for many more animal and plant species.

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