Grizzly bears have long been a point of intense public interest. Any decision as consequential as re-opening a hunt should have been made only after transparent, open public consultation
The grizzly bear that didn’t kill me became a problem bear two weeks later. I first met her when I blundered into her two cubs while bushwhacking through aspens in Waterton Lakes National Park. I smelled them first, then saw them – barely four metres away. I had forgotten my bear spray. Heart pounding with sudden fear, I looked around, and there was mom.
That granary got a lot of bears into trouble over the years, until its owner finally allowed a conservation group to replace it with a bear-proof metal bin. And just like that, bears ceased to become “problems” there. , Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen has announced a plan to solve grizzly problems by issuing hunting licences to hunters eager for trophy kills. In a masterpiece of Orwellian prose, the decision to open the hunt against the advice of biologists wasPretending it’s about protecting life and property from “problem” bears is a devious way of dressing up a trophy hunt as a public service. It isn’t.
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