The state of Wyoming announced that grizzly bear hunts are back, and the first one will take place this fall.
It will be the first such hunt since 1974.
A shot of the Elephant Back Loop Trailhead is temporarily closed in Yellowstone National Park. (Reuters)
Hunters will be able to capture and kill up to 22 of the large brown bears across a wide area east and south of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
After hearing from both opponents and supporters of the proposal, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission voted 7-0 on May 24 in favor of resuming the hunt, the Associated Press reported.
“We heard from the people of Wyoming, they were supportive of this. It’s pretty clear the science supports this,” Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokesman Renny MacKay told the outlet.
A grizzly bear looks around while…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Wyoming has proved with and grizzlies, they should not be allowed to manage wildlife.
Exactly.
Hunters only represent 5-6 % of the population. Yet, they have a stranglehold on what “state wildlife agencies” call management (hunting and trapping). It is time nonconsumptive users of wildlife and the wilderness public land, have the majority control of wildlife management. The public actually pay for 94% of wilderness and public land management.
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“Wyoming Approves Cruel Yellowstone Grizzly Hunt“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/05/23/wyoming-may-legalize-trophy-hunting-of-grizzly-bears-for-the-first-time-in-40-years/
“The state of Wyoming has just approved a hunt that could kill 22 of Yellowstone’s famed grizzly bears when they wander out of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks this fall. The move comes less than a year after the Trump administration stripped Endangered Species Act protection from the great bears.
Wyoming received 125,000-plus comments opposing hunting of these grizzlies, which are threatened by isolation from other populations, loss of key foods and human-caused deaths.
“Yellowstone’s bears are national treasures, and millions of people come to see them every year,” said Noah Greenwald, the Center’s endangered species director. “It’s senseless that Wyoming thinks they’re more valuable dead than alive.”
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Hunting is thrill killing. Hunters will hunt animals to extinction, hunt threatened, endangered, recently delisted. They will hunt rapidly diminishing numbers of some species. They will hunt and trophy hunt calling it Conservation or management of the numbers or call it culling or harvesting. They will hunt in canned hunts. They will hold killing contests. Trappers will trap much in the same manner. Tell me it is not just the killing that the hunters like.
What we should be doing more is rewilding, establishing, protecting and connecting wildlife corridors. Threatened, endangered, recovering, drastically reduced species should not be hunted at all. Predators should not be hunted, as they are keystone species essential for a healthy wilderness. No hunting should be allowed on or near Refuges or near National Parks. Trapping on public land and wilderness areas should end. Biodiversity is essential. It is hunters and trappers and ranchers who are nonessential.
References:
http://m.humanesociety.org/issues/endangered_species/
https://imnotatrophy.org/trophy-hunting/
https://www.huntercourse.com/blog/2011/08/10-animals-hunted-or-nearly-hunted-to-extinction/
http://www.worldanimalfoundation.org/articles/article/l8948432/186464.htm
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/31/globalpost-6-endangered-animals-poachers-hunting-into-extinction/30932385/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/interior-dept-moves-allow-alaska-bear-hunting-doughnuts-bacon-n876306
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbee5d/how-to-kill-a-wolf-0000259-v21n3
https://e360.yale.edu/features/coyote-carnage-the-gruesome-truth-about-wildlife-killing-contests
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alaska-preserve-predator-hunting-interior-proposed-rule_us_5b032131e4b0a046186ecabe
https://www.wyofile.com/m-44-cyanide-bombs-killed-164-wyoming-coyotes-in-2017/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alaska-preserve-predator-hunting-interior-proposed-rule_us_5b032131e4b0a046186ecabe
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/interior-dept-moves-allow-alaska-bear-hunting-doughnuts-bacon-n876306
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/yellowstone-grizzly-bear-hunts-wyoming-controversy-animals/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wyoming-grizzly-hunt_us_5b05a514e4b07c4ea1045677
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/05/23/wyoming-may-legalize-trophy-hunting-of-grizzly-bears-for-the-first-time-in-40-years/
https://rewilding.org/its-time-for-a-revolution-in-state-wildlife-governance/
Thanks for all the important info and links.
I really hope that the court case in August will set this right. It’s terrible that every opinion opposed to it is just dismissed like this. The judge neatly sidestepped any attempt to delay the case until after hunting season, so it appears certain tricks only work once.
Ironically, F&W wanted a comment period, which it appears they have no intention of listening to.
Apparently.
They never listen. If there is a hearing open to the public, the hunters usually send their biggest and loudest bullies to shout people down and intimidate them.
There is something wrong with a government agency getting funding by selling hunting licenses. Of course, there will be more killing.
This time they wanted to use a comment period as a delaying tactic – only the judge called them right out on it, because it is a judicial decision, for which a comment period would not have any effect.
“How is this public comment period somehow going to shed any light or give any assistance at all with the issues in this lawsuit?” Christensen asked U.S. Department of Justice Attorney Coby Howell. “When we’re talking about the application of a circuit court opinion, that’s a decision I’m going to have to make. How is public comment going to help me out?”
A thing of beauty to read.
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-judge-in-missoula-speeds-up-grizzly-lawsuit-ahead-of/article_df30dc08-494b-51ae-bf73-9882939ba2ec.html