Here are some remarks of grizzly bear expert, Professor Barrie Gilbert, Utah State University, published in The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, January 25, 2006, concerning the recently proposed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management plan that would remove grizzly bears from the endangered species list:
. . . .There isn’t a very large number out there. Hunting is one of the reasons the bears became endangered in the first place. . . . The bears would be hunted for trophy and sport. . . . There is big money in bear hunting. . . . To me they are like intelligent dogs. And I don’t go around shooting intelligent dogs.
Who is this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that made the proposal? It is two or three federal employees with trophy-hunter leanings, sitting in a room, patching together a plan and stamping it with the seal of officialdom that implies it has been determined with certainty that allowing the killing of grizzly bears will please many, many people and harm the sensibilities of few, few people - a benefit-to-cost slam dunk.
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