We are kind of used to bears here in the Great Land. Bears, and other big critters like moose, have always been here, and we are used to living around them. That’s relevant at the moment, as the other day a friend of ours who lives back in the hills away from the highway sent us a photo of about a 9-inch wide print of a grizzly that had walked through the snow right next to their garage; yes, our bears are waking up, and they are hungry.
But in the lower 48, most folks don’t live around these enormous apex predators. Since their population density is generally higher and there are a lot more livestock around, some folks in northern Washington state are rightfully perturbed at the idea that the Biden administration is accelerating plans to move some of these Volkswagen-sized death machines into their neighborhoods.
In a joint announcement, the National Park Service and U.S. Fish &…
