Page 42 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” If only that, too, were true. In Wyoming’s clamor to delist the Yellowstone grizzly, Clark has suddenly become a haven for hyperphagic grizzlies that have burst forth upon the unwitting and scattered community from the overpopulation of Greater Yellowstone grizzlies that Frank Van Manen’s IGBST has convinced the tri-state media are bursting forth from every mountain range, including the Beartooths. There were far fewer houses, and the local media’s marauding grizzlies had not been suggested as a credible story, when I first entered upon that windblown steppe. Nowadays, according to the Powell Tribune, a behemoth “reportedly around 800 pounds” is among the grizz that prowl the river rock and sagebrush that constitutes pasture around Clark, all in search of unsuspecting cattle. Ellsbury hasn’t trapped the Godzilla of grizzly sows yet, but he did manage to snag a 300-pound female the day after 760 was killed and she shared that same end. “We actually have several bears out here in the area right now,” Ellsbury confirmed to the Tribune that fall, as the Kodiak of Clark stalked their imaginations. “We actually put up more traps today and put them by a cornfield they were in,” he advised October 30. On November 3 he trapped a 42