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Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest particular segment of society who share a common ideology. It is not unlike the pantheon of myths that came before that were targeted at tribal people and served to justify dispossessing them. Wherever these trophy hunters and their “game and fish” facilitators go in Greater Yellowstone, they are exploiting ancestral homelands; and they no more paid for that land than they did for grizzly recovery. No-Bear's-Land http://www.heybear.com/#!no-bears-land/c1lp6 Halving grizzly country in the GYE, or rather, redrawing grizzly country on a virtual GYE, was not going to be sufficient in and of itself to furnish the desired population estimate; and so, after years of defending the extrapolations from Chao2, the IGBST proposed a new system based upon the “mark-resight” process. Chao replaced knight when a departure into bio gerrymandering was needed, and now history repeats. Paper Grizzlies vs. Real Bears: A Summary of the Count and Counters - 1973 to the Present http://www.heybear.com/#!paper-grizzlies-v-real-bears/c23ck “Anne Chao of National Tsing Hua University created a model to estimate populations from sparse capture-recapture records to assess the population of Illinois mud turtles when the merits of that species for Endangered Species Act listing were being evaluated. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team took Chao’s analysis to aid in the removal of the grizzly from that same list . . . Nits Make Lice: The genesis of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation http://www.goaltribal.org/#!nits-make-lice/c7wz “It cannot be too often insisted that they did not own the land,” wrote President Theodore Roosevelt of Native title. “To recognize the Indian 57