Mar 4th, 2016: Blaze

[glatt]

I'll admit I'm no expert, but when a bear kills a person, I think it makes sense to kill the bear. The attacks are so infrequent, and there are enough bears that it's not going to decimate the bear population to do so. And once a bear is no longer afraid of humans, it's going to be more likely to do it again. Even if it's a mama protecting her cubs.

I hold as self evident that if you are weighing a human's life against an animal's life the human life wins.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yellowstone is a unique park because of it's geology. The wildlife is a nice sideshow but I wonder how many people come to see the wildlife? How many come to see bears?
As I understand it, the idea was to keep Yellowstone as close to original... at least when the white man discovered it... without endangering tourists. But when that was decided people were mostly non-urban and had a little sense about wild animals.
My favorite Yellowstone story is the ranger catching a woman painting her kids face with honey to get a picture of a bear licking the kid's face.

And one more thing - why is it one guy's decision?

He runs the park, who else would?