If you ever thought that the signing of petitions does not work. Here is proof to the contrary:
A federal judge on Monday ordered Endangered Species Act protections restored to grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, halting plans for the first licensed trophy hunts of the region's grizzlies in more than 40 years.

In a 48-page document released Monday, Christensen said the case — which would likely reverberate beyond the Northern Rockies — was not "about the ethics of hunting, and it is not about solving human- or livestock-grizzly conflicts as a practical or philosophical matter."

The wildlife service, Christensen wrote, "failed to make a reasoned decision" when it delisted a population of roughly 700 Yellowstone grizzlies from the Endangered Species Act.

The agency didn’t consider the impact of hunting the Yellowstone grizzly on five other bear populations in the Lower 48 States — as it was required to — and its analysis of threats to the species was "arbitrary and capricious," Christensen wrote.