Page 41 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest “You just break all those rules anyway” V I n a predictable and shaky editorial that proclaimed, “Euthanizing grizzly was the right call,” the Casper Star Tribune got both the location where 760 was relocated to, and later where the bear was killed, wrong. They did however quote Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Victorian Poet Laureate of Britain and Ireland, in a effort to make their point, using Tennyson’s “red in tooth and claw” to justify the killing. “Wyomingites should be relieved that because of the appropriate actions by wildlife managers in this case, they won’t have cause to find out why,” was the editorial’s last line of validation. Though they undoubtedly missed the irony, “red in tooth and claw” is from Tennyson’s In Memoriam, a requiem to his companion Arthur Henry Hallam, in which he does not only struggle with grief, but toils between questions of faith and science, trying to reconcile Christine doctrine with evolutionary theory, something Wyoming lawmakers and education boards continue to do. For those who protested 760’s death they may have suggested, “Tis better to 41