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Yellowstone ... Bradley Orsted
June 17 at 12:42am · 

It seems the delisting of grizzly bears is imminent and without delay upon their removal from the Endangered Species Act they could be hunted in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. With all of the political and scientific shots fired across the bow I’ve felt compelled to chime in as someone who is neither political nor scientific. I have nothing to neither lose nor gain with either community. Mine is a personal journey and what the grizzly means to me.
Being in grizzly country is the epitome of being in the wild to me. On foot and stepping over fresh grizzly bear tracks will tune you up like no prescription. Your heart races, your blood pumps, your mind snaps sharp and you are suddenly extremely keen of your surroundings. You hear birds like you’ve never heard them, you hear sticks break deep in the forest, you are in grizzly country. You are not only in the presence of greatness you are in their home.
For me this is what being in the wild really is and what we stand to lose if grizzly bears are delisted and hunted. We lose not only grizzlies on the landscape but something more intangible more unquantifiable; we lose the wild not only out our back doors but also within us. Grizzly bears should be our barometer, our canary in the coalmine. What happens to the grizzly is only a precursor to what will eventually happen to us all. When there is no more wild left for the grizzlies the demise of our equally delicate and precious wild is sure to follow.

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