Scary Times At The Bottom Of The Wild Food Chain

Many decades ago, when my brother Ron and I would go big-game hunting, it was comforting to know that we were at the top of the food chain.

We had powerful rifles and we knew that no creature out there could cause us serious harm.

Our anti-hunter acquaintances always pointed out the unfairness of “hunting,” asking what would we do if the other side could hunt us?

Sometime in the 1980s, all this changed.

From that time on, grizzly bears have been encouraged to live all over Western Wyoming. It was a game-changer. Human hunters now could be viewed as fair game. The playing field was lev...

 

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