Page 13 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest love critters almost as much as guns and God, or the pretense thereof on Sundays. Well, maybe not all of us; the small print on the cover states that Wyoming Wildlife is “Published for anglers, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts,” which translates to: that small minority of wildlife enthusiasts who are enthusiastic about killing wildlife and happen, by demographic, to be 95% white males. The biggest event in the June 2015 edition was the “Super Tag” and “Super Tag Trifecta” raffle application deadline. The inside front cover had a photograph of last year’s Super Tag raffle winner kneeling behind a dead buffalo he claimed as his prize. How long will it be before that is a grizzly slumped lifeless and bloody at the lap of WGFD’s raffle winner? Not long, could be the answer. The worst kept secret since Wyoming’s Congressional delegation was informed that the earth has been in existence for more than 6,000 years and man didn’t walk with dinosaurs, was announced March 3, 2016 by FWS Director, Dan Ashe – the proposed rule to delist the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the ESA was to be published in the Federal Register the following week. 13