Public meetings are scheduled next month in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming on the federal government’s plans to remove federal protections for grizzly bears surrounding Yellowstone National Park.
The move would put management of bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem into the hands of the three states and give them greater flexibility. It also could clear the way for limited hunting.
If you’ve never hunted bear before, they’re wonderful. The big furry pigs will turn the tables on your bumbling ass and hunt you right back if you’re not careful.
Public meetings on the proposal are scheduled Jan. 9 at the Holiday Inn in Bozeman; Jan. 10 in Cody, Wyo.; Jan. 11 in Jackson, Wyo.; and Jan. 12 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
I won’t be able to go to the meetings, which is really too bad because the enviro-weenies are totally against this and may hold a protest, but I’ll see if they’ll publish an online version of the minutes.
The Interior Department cited robust population growth, coupled with public support and cooperation between state and federal governments, in announcing in November its proposal to remove the grizzly from the Endangered Species List.
The ‘robust growth’ of the Grizzly population means that there may be a robust growth in the quantity of bear sausage in my freezer.
Ah-ha! Does that mean we might see the .338 Lapua at Boomershoot 2006 instead of 2007, as previously planned?
There’s a similar robust growth in the ranks of cougar. They had been overhunted, but AFTER the Fish & Game ended hunting for them in OR, the envirowhackos put an initiative up that banned the use of dogs (even by F&G hunters) in the pursuit of cougars.
The cougars rebounded, from 10 years of no hunting, and now are in most Oregon suburbs, carrying off pets and scaring the hell out of soccer moms.
I’m tempted to yell “Go cougs” at the top of my lungs, but I’m afraid people would take that as support one of the U of OR Ducks’ main rivals.
Most envirowhacko-driven hunting bans fail, because the enviros put them in place not out of proven game management science, but out of sappy sentimentality.
Let the game managers do their jobs!
See the brown bear, aka Kodiak Bear, my dad got several years ago at http://home.comcast.net/~freddyboomboom/bear.html
Where that is additionally on topic is he used a .338. Ruger model 77 with Leupold glass, if you were wondering. I think it took 6 rounds to drop the bear…
My uncle that lives in Kodiak took my dad and his buddy out for that hunt. He borowed a friend’s commercial fishing boat to take them out to the other side of the island.
BTW, the bear is in Boone and Crockett, and the moose and caribou my dad got that season got in boone and Crockett’s 3 year awards.