Dave Smith commenting on how absurd it is that a few hundred Grizzly bears are just too many based on our farming and cattle monopolization of the land

Dave Smith 

Yellowstone grizzly bears fenced in by cattle, ranchers

Grizzly bears are not allowed to use millions of acres of "suitable habitat" on U.S. Forest Service land in Wyoming due to cattle and ranchers.

Wyoming Game and Fish Department records show that grazing allotments on the Bridger-Teton National Forest act as a fence that precludes grizzly bears from moving into the southern Wind River mountains. There's a Maginot Line of grazing allotments between Dubious and Pinedale, Wyoming.
Year after year, records show the Wyoming Game and Fish Department either kills grizzlies that prey on dull-witted cattle, or live-traps grizzlies and relocates them near Yellowstone Park.
To protect the guilty, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Forest Service don't provide names of the ranchers or the grazing allotments that cause problems for grizzly bears. But when you look at maps and records for 2005 to 2009 at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department website, it's readily apparent the same grazing allotments are the problem year after year after year.
May 9, 2008. Grizzly #580 relocated due to cattle depredation.
July 24, 2008. Grizzly #433 killed due to chronic cattle depredation.
July 28, 2008. Grizzly #504 killed due to chronic cattle depredation.
July 31, 2008. Grizzly #464 killed to chronic cattle depredation.
August 4, 2008. Grizzly #497 relocated due to cattle depredation.
August 9, 2008. Grizzly #G129 relocated due to cattle depredation.
August 13, 2008. Grizzly #545 killed to chronic cattle depredation.
August 28, 2008. Grizzly #276 relocated due to cattle depredation.
July 20, 2009. Grizzly #612 relocated due to cattle damage.
July 24, 2009. Grizzly #613 relocated due to sheep damage.
August 2, 2009. Grizzly #617 relocated due to cattle damage.
August 11, 2009. Grizzly #G146 relocated due to sheep damage.
September 18, 2009. Grizzly #625 relocated due to cattle damage.
In an Associated Press article featured today in USA Today, Wyoming Game and Fish Department bear specialist Mark Bruscino said, "There's no place to put [grizzlies] because the wildland habitat in our state is full."
Full of cattle, that is...........................more room for our magnificent GRIZ is needed................do we incentivize ranchers through lower taxes or even direct payments to allow for Grizzlies, Wolves and Cougars to run free???  I say YES--Blogger Rick