For the first time in more than 40 years, Wyoming will allow hunters to shoot the big bears. It’s a bad idea.
By Ted Kerasote
Mr. Kerasote has written about nature and wildlife since the 1970s.
KELLY, Wyo.
They’ve passed within a hundred feet of my living-room windows. I’ve seen them while riding my bicycle and on foot and from my car. I’ve seen them in the high green grass of spring and the swirling snows of December. Tagged by biologists as bears 399 and 610, these two grizzly bears, mother and daughter, make their home in Grand Teton National Park, where they have produced 17 offspring over the last two decades while delighting and astonishing tourists, photographers and biologists alike.
But they could soon find themselves in the cross hairs of a trophy hunter’s…
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