Any employer who would rather let her employees DIE than tangle with a bunch of Fish & Wildlife bureaucrats deserves to go broke.
She should have issued some of these:
Winchester Model 71 for the .348 cartridge. Packs a severe punch but has quite controllable recoil, and with the lever action you can roll the lead out there in a hurry. I think it's still the most powerful production lever action, the cartridge is based on an old black powder round and you can see that the base is massive. It takes over 50 gr of 4320 or 4064 to fill that huge case up (the top round is a .30-30 for comparison).
It was my mother's bear gun when she and dad were planning a trip to Alaska. Dad was going to get a .375 H&H, but they turned up pregnant with me instead . . . . every so often dad gives me a wistful look and asks, "Couldn't you have waited til I got the .375?"