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Fremont Residents: Limit Grizzlies to Parks
Casper Star-Tribune ^ | December 10, 2004 | Brodie Farquhar

Posted on 12/10/2004 11:40:23 AM PST by hardhead

RIVERTON -- More than 300 people crowded into the conference facility of the Riverton Holiday Inn Tuesday night, most to protest the grizzly bear occupancy management plan presented by officials of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

The informational meeting, followed by a rancorous question-and-answer session that lasted until 11 p.m., was supposed to explain how the grizzly bear would be managed in Wyoming being removed from federal protection.

Quite a few members of the audience sported large, cardboard lapel pins featuring a grizzly bear behind a picket fence, with the caption, "No griz in my backyard."

Conservationists were in a distinct minority. Several said they felt intimidated by the angry crowd and left early.

The Game and Fish Department's plan does not provide for grizzly bears in the southern Wind River Mountains, a concession to local people who say the animals would interfere with human recreation there. But people at Tuesday night's meeting said the plan shouldn't even allow grizzlies outside Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: animalrights; bears; carnivore; environment; fedinterference; governmentabuse; grizzly; madashell; wildlife
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To: geopyg
That is funny!

I thought the story about the wolves being killed and threw on a east bound train was funny.

My sister told me that on the Boise news yesterday they were saying that 4 wolves had been killed and they were offering a huge reward if someone would turn them in.

That happened here and some actually did it for the money.

I have been trying to find the story, we don't get local news up here.
21 posted on 12/10/2004 1:34:58 PM PST by Delphinium
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To: Politicalities

So funny, I am gona pass that one on.


22 posted on 12/10/2004 1:36:06 PM PST by Delphinium
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To: hardhead

I suggest a trap and release program. NYC and San Francisco are woefully short in the environmentalist/grizzly ratio.


23 posted on 12/10/2004 1:36:37 PM PST by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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To: Delphinium

I believe the term is "S - S - S" - "Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up".


24 posted on 12/10/2004 1:38:11 PM PST by hardhead ("Curly, if you say it's a fine morning, I'll shoot you!" - John Wayne, McLintock 1963)
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To: hardhead

And you have to shut up even when the urge to brag happens.


25 posted on 12/10/2004 3:39:22 PM PST by Delphinium
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To: hardhead; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
26 posted on 12/10/2004 5:09:58 PM PST by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: hardhead

Just shoot the wolf and dispose of the body by dropping it off at your local chinese buffet........


27 posted on 12/10/2004 5:56:30 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now !)
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To: hardhead; farmfriend; SierraWasp; Grampa Dave
'Who does the governor work for?'................
He wouldn't answer that.

The governor needs to deliver a message......

28 posted on 12/10/2004 6:13:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!


29 posted on 12/11/2004 3:06:52 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Citizen Soldier

LOLOL. Beats the bell-an-pepper method, I guess!


30 posted on 12/11/2004 3:24:00 AM PST by patton (Changing culture is like moving a cemetary. You don't get much help from the residents.)
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To: glorgau

You probably live in the city, far from grizzly country. The only grizzly you'll ever see is in the zoo. These ranchers have much more to lose in this matter than you do.


31 posted on 12/11/2004 3:30:42 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Citizen Soldier

You know how to tell the difference between grizzly bear scat and black bear scat? The grizzly bear scat has bells in it.


32 posted on 12/11/2004 3:36:17 AM PST by Modok
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To: hardhead
I believe the term is "S - S - S" - "Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up".

That's a big hole to dig for a grizzly!

33 posted on 12/11/2004 9:31:19 AM PST by glorgau
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