Page 22 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest Trophy Game Management Area (WTGMA) where WGFD would administer wolf hunts. Across that line was the Seasonal WTGMA and Predator Zone, where the only restriction on shooting a wolf would be access to a gun. “A remarkable effort was made by many in our state, by Secretary Ken Salazar and by his team to reach this milestone,” Governor Mead proclaimed when Wyoming got its way. Mead’s “Trophy Game Management Area” for wolves is where his state now intends to corral grizzlies. Wyoming “has the authority to establish zones and areas in which trophy game animals may be taken, in the same manner as predatory animals without a license,” is a WGFD statement that reflects the governor’s position. The “three-strike” policy with grizzlies WGFD has employed when convenient will officially be replaced by the one strike, bullets. Grizzlies, like wolves, will be shot on sight as predators by anybody who totes that caliber and can make that range. Hell, they won’t even have to pretend it was self-defense anymore. “Grizzlies are highly evolved and intelligent creatures,” a WGFD/IGBC sign informs visitors to the Sleeping Giant picnic area on the road to Yellowstone. This, of course, explains why WGFD’s Director, his minions, and their master are all so eager to enable those who defy that description the sanction to kill 22