Page 56 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest Speak Truth to Authority- Know the issue! This is a selection of essays by R. Bear Stands Last that you can access from GOAL Tribal Coalition. Whitebark Pine - Keystone to Afterthought in the Drive to Delist http://www.heybear.com/#!white-bark-pine- issue/c166a “One of the most important essays you will ever read on grizzly delisting in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.” Louisa Willcox- www.GrizzlyTimes.org “My job is to provide the best possible information to the policy-makers,” Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) leader, Frank van Manen, told the High Country News in August of 2013. When his Response of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears to Changes in Food Resources: a synthesis was published a few months later, it became clear just how seriously van Manen takes his job. Contradicting some twenty-years of IGBST research that was consistently in line with the team’s 2006 statement that, “whitebark pine nuts are by far the most important plant food” for Yellowstone’s grizzlies, van Manen concluded otherwise. Trophy Hunters’ License Sales Do Not Fund Grizzly Recovery in Greater Yellowstone http://www.heybear.com/#!trophy-hunters-dont-fund- recovery/c1mjt That trophy hunters are responsible for the recovery of endangered species has in scope and purpose become a classic western frontier myth, designed to engender the same responses and attitudes within a 56