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OPPOSITION MOUNTS
At present, a number of lawsuits brought by environmentalists and Native American tribes are moving through the courts seeking to have restore federal protection for grizzlies, which would result in sport hunts being halted.
More than 650,000 public comments were submitted in response to removing bears from federal protection and allowing states to recommence hunting. The overwhelming majority expressed opposition. Scientists and wildlife photographers have also written letters noting that bear-watching—as anchors to a $1 billion annual nature-tourism economy in the region—make grizzlies worth far more alive than dead.
In Wyoming, sentiment among citizens is divided over hunting, though pro-hunting forces have a strong, influential voice. “The greatest trophy in the Lower 48 is a male grizzly. Now you won’t have to go to Alaska to get a grizzly,” hunter Scott Weber of Cody, Wyoming, a member of the organization Wyoming Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife,
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Exposing the Big Game 
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 the links.