Page 8 - Wyoming's Grizzly Harvest - The Story the State Wants to Bury with the Bears

Wyoming’s Grizzly Harvest with us.” The prophecy spoke of a “crossroads” for human kind that would arise because people “had become spiritually disconnected” and “lost those traditional values of respect and honor for all things that have a spirit.” What he said back then, he reiterated with the coming of the white grizzly. We are at that crossroads. The answer to who would want to kill a sacred messenger confirms it. And my friend was right – the white grizzly would be the trophy. The week of the white grizzly was a bad one for Wyoming Governor, Matt Mead, his Director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Scott Talbott, and the Department’s Large Carnivore Conflict Coordinator, Brian DeBolt. It is easy to envisage them congratulating a shooter for “taking” such a trophy, and that they would see the white grizzly as something disposable to kill for pleasure, a mount and bragging rights, demonstrates the divide. What shreds of credibility they had remaining on the grizzly bear and wolf delisting issues disappeared September 22 and 23, 2014. On Monday 22, one of their employees, Luke R. Ellsbury, a Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) large carnivore biologist and “bear management specialist,” pled guilty to shooting a grizzly bear twenty-three feet from Highway 14/16/20 west of Cody, Wyoming. The following 8