The number of Grizzlies has doubled since they were added to the endangered species list in 1975. The Department of the Interior has recommended removing them from the list which would give management of the grizzlies back to the states. It is almost guaranteed that Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana would allow for them to be hunted.
Republicans feel the Endangered Species list is a nuisance unto itself, it hinders the rights of landowners particularly since most animals are not recovered. On the issue of the Grizzly, activists are split. Some say take them off the list because it shows the list works and endangered species can be recovered. Others argue that the Grizzlies should stay because there are too many other threats to their existence.
I'm never excited about hunting as a sport. Between the hunter and the bear - My vote goes to the bear.
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I'm going to agree with you - the tenuous relatinship of (in this case) bear and human and nature and human must, at this late date, as I see it, go to Nature and the bear, no matter what. It seems to me we have advanced along our own, prideful scale long well enough now so as to be able to both see and reap the products of what we've done. The reactionary advance, in turn, of Nature and bear means to show us the renewable spirit of the God-Cosmos in spite of our own stupidites. We've had our run. We can not continue to engorge with our profligacy the stupid habits we ballooned with - extenal, anti-nature and not benevolent. The bear, as nature's rep, carries the torch of return beneath the darkn'ing sky of doom and apocolypse. Let them have it back as we gently retreat.
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Thanks. Gary Introne
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