Page 16 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest AKA The Grizzly II T O describe Servheen’s acceptance of Wyoming’s previous grizzly bear management plan on behalf of FWS as “arbitrary and capricious” would be generous in the extreme. For what now awaits the Great Bear under Wyoming’s jurisdiction see the state’s “management” of the wolf. Nevertheless, since 2006 Servheen has enthusiastically touted the state’s ability to inherit control of the grizzly bear based upon WGFD’s Grizzly Bear Management Plan – February 2002 (Amended July, 2005). “The state will have the ability to direct mortality in areas where it wants to manage for lower densities of grizzly bears,” Servheen confirmed, which, stripped of the euphemistic, means kill to reduce the population. “You have the discretion to direct mortality to those areas you see as necessary,” he apprised the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission prior to FWS’s 2007 delisting rule. That was precisely what the state craved, having stipulated that a 16