Page 17 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest population of 500 grizzlies would be the maximum it would tolerate. It appeared that Wyoming could not ask for anything more, but Servheen prostrated himself further, and by doing so guaranteed that if the Yellowstone grizzly was delisted it could never be considered recovered under the criteria of the ESA. The grizzly would be confined to Yellowstone National Park, a segment of Grand Teton, and a buffer around both where trophy hunters could ultimately kill what remained of those bears that were blind to the invisible line FWS categorized as the Primary Conservation Area (PCA) and Wyoming Game and Fish dubbed the Grizzly Bear Data Analysis Unit (GBDAU). “If Wyoming wants more mortality, it can trade in mortality, if you will, with other states,” Servheen informed the department, his word surety that Wyoming’s quota of 49% of proposed grizzly mortality under the previous delisting submission would increase. When it comes to killing grizzlies, the Grizzly Czar is Judge Dredd. Wyoming’s draft 2016 grizzly bear management plan is consistent with its prior efforts, but uses more generalized terms for geographic areas, and a handful of new acronyms to categorize essentially the same things. One of the notable 17