Page 50 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest three out of twenty deaths were attributed to grizzly-on- grizzly conflict. The take away from the “Yellowstone seeing more bear-on-bear deaths” headline is that there are now so many grizzlies in Greater Yellowstone that they are killing each other, which serves to remind us of their true, rapacious savage nature that we are at the mercy of as we wait to be overrun. Coincidentally, during that same monitoring period, there were fifteen murders in Wyoming, which, in IGBST-speak, is human-on-human conflict at a significantly higher rate. Talbott, DeBolt and Servheen appeared to be aware that drawing attention to Ellsbury would make reasonable members of the public realize that having the Wyoming Game and Fish Department manage grizzly bears is on a par with suggesting that liquor storeowners be given responsibility for every AA meeting in the state. Trophy hunters run WGFD for the benefit of hunters and to the exclusion of everybody else, bar a few with rods and waders. WGFD, in common with most state game departments, operates in direct contradiction to the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Greer v. Connecticut (1896), where in the majority opinion for the Court, Chief Justice White stipulated that no advantage was to be afforded the state government over the 50