Published on April 26, 2022April 26, 2022  in News/wildlife

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/04/26/lifetime-hunting-ban-appropriate-for-poaching-grizzly-wyoming-hunting-official-says/

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By Jimmy Orr, Cowboy State Daily

A man who admitted to poaching a grizzly bear outside of Yellowstone National Park was suitably punished when he lost his hunting privileges for the rest of his life, according to an official with a Wyoming wildlife group.

Josh Coursey, co-chairman of Gov. Mark Gordon’s Wyoming Wildlife Task Force, said the punishment handed down for the Idaho man who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the shooting of the grizzly in March 2021 was appropriate. The grizzly was shot more than a dozen times.

“These are criminals,” Coursey told Cowboy State Daily. “This case was littered with criminal intent from the onset.”

Jared Baum, of Ashton, Idaho, pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of wildlife in March, 2021. The death of the female grizzly also…