Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier.

Back in the old days, human beings and grizzly bears used to live together.

We, or they, somehow got along. They migrated

together from Asia to North America, arriving in Montana 13,000 years ago.

The bears spread out to the east as far as Chicago, south to Durango, Mexico, and up the west coast of Seattle, Canada, Alaska. People lived with them in all these places, in the same valleys, next to the same rivers,

wilderness in all directions. People back then thought the bear was a sacred animal smarter than they were.

They called a teacher and shaman. To them it was the supreme being.

And this social arrangement must have worked because it lasted for 13,000

years until a new kind of human showed up on the scene, white men with guns who proceeded to kill almost all the grizzly bears and almost all the native people and take almost all their land.

95% of the native people died and the grizzly population dropped from 100,000 to 1,000 in the lower 48 states.

In 1975, the federal government put the grizzly bear on the list of endangered species,

making it illegal to hunt them or to encroach upon their remaining territory.

But now it looks like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to take the Greater

Yellowstone Grizzly off the list, making it legal once again to hunt them for sport

and to extract commodities like gold, oil, and timber from their land.

Most of the people who live in and around the greater Yellowstone ecosystem,

ranchers, outfitters, people who live in small towns, they think hunting grizzly bears is a good idea

because they believe there's too many of them now and hunting is the best way to manage the population.

It's a huge and heated argument.

To me, I love hunting.

And I think that Grizzly is a magnificent animal.

However, you've got to control the predator, the top of the pyramid,

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