National Park Week is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone, as well as the 417 national park sites where people connect with our shared history, refresh their spirits and see wildlife. National parks must not become islands of protected lands, choked by industrialization or sanctuaries for endangered and recovering wildlife populations. However, Wyoming’s aggressive plan to hunt 24 grizzly bears this fall, on land that borders Grand Teton and Yellowstone National parks, aims to do just that.
Through a flawed process finalized in July 2017 by U.S. Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzlies were removed from federal protections. The final rule fails to ensure the bears’ long-term health and gambles decades of work and millions of tax payer dollars invested in restoring the population. The removal sparked widespread outrage and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
If nothing else, baiting bears and wolves out of the Park should not be allowed. The current plan allows it! It is shocking to me that these bears are barely recovered, and hunter and ranchers want to start right in on them immediately. I’m praying that it will all come to a stop in August when it goes to court.
The media reports are slapdash and show that this kind of thing isn’t on their radar when they can report on scandals instead. I also do not like when they quote reps from SCI – in this case, they, the NRA and the RMEF are not parties to the lawsuit, but have intervenor status.
If nothing else…
If you want an ironic chuckle, just read about how the judge laid down the law in this case. USF&W wanted to use delaying tactics by asking for a comment period that doesn’t really apply in the decision. The entire article is a thing of beauty:
http://missoulian.com/news/local/federal-judge-in-missoula-speeds-up-grizzly-lawsuit-ahead-of/article_91609760-cab2-502c-b88e-e4e543d39814.html