The Grizzly needs space, and the continental United States no longer has space to give

him.

If he is denied running room and the human animal continues to bump against him in ever

increasing numbers, the Grizzly will name and kill.

So long as the National Park system continues to permit more and more humans to flow willy-nilly

to all the nooks and crannies of Glacier National Park, no one will need a crystal ball to

see the tragedy that is shaping up.

There may be a summer or two, maybe three or four, without serious injury.

But inevitably standards will slip, complacency and human error will return, and along will

come another Grizzly that is peculiar, or another Grizzly that has been baited by proximity

with humans and has lost its respect and fear.

Then, more human life will be sacrificed, almost as certainly as Tamaracks lose their

needles and beaver's eat aspen bark.

After the next huts front of death in Glacier Park, the Grizzlies will almost certainly

be banded to Canada, and perhaps sent to Alaska to live out his last years as a species.

All the goodwill and understanding in the world, all the good intentions and prized

proclamations will not alter his eventual fate.

Men and Grizzly are at core antagonists, and with the same ingenious tools that fell the

giant redwoods of California, and stripped the top soil of western Pennsylvania, and pollute

the streams of Oregon, man will rid himself of his antagonists.

The planet is man's, he has bent it to his will and made it his to enjoy, his to develop,

and his to destroy.

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