Yes but to reintroduce grizzlies and have public safety will mean fences and private ranches where bears are welcomed. Many people do not want this. Personally I'll take 2...and I'm willing to pay. But pretty much everyone on gunnutz would rather not see a grizzly bear than see bears behind large fenced and animal friendly habitats.
So until people accept that we need fences and private investment in wildlife conservation here in Canada, the truth is these bears and all predators or any wildlife that poses even a small risk to public safety or costs ranchers in lost revenue will be systematically destroyed. And for the time being you're going to need to charter a private plane to remote areas to truly see wilderness or what resembles it.
Would one large trophy grizzly bear hunt pay for 20-50 cattle kills if sold on the world market? Duh yeah it would but some people never want to see the bears pay their way economically and compete for space with cattle. These are the same people that think their $40 draw tags buy habitat and protect it. Rather, it's the true cost of the hunt that needs to be realized for the bears to be saved in todays world. Nobody is going to keep thousands of square miles of habitat for wildlife when they can't sell it to generate the funds needed to keep the land for wildlife in the first place.
Like any business out there, wildlife will only be preserved and protected by the very people who can properly value it and profit from it. Give the bears a price, give the bears a life. Otherwise they will continue to be replaced by every and any other thing that generates revenue in our world. And since the bears actually pose a threat to people and property they will have a particularly difficult time of surviving into the 22nd century.
How many of you gunnutterz are prepared to pay the full price of keeping the bears alive? I bought and paid for my land and I choose to keep it wild...how many of you will spend anything above your $40 tags to keep the wildlife around?? Yeah...I thought so. Everyone wants to shoot and kill but no one wants to invest in the wildlife beyond their rifle and box of shells. I'm not singling you out on this Ardent, I think you and I want to keep wildlife around. I'm just elaborating in the points you raised. You and I are one of the few guys who brings value to the hunting and conservation community.
