Strange result from the incompetent handling of bears last year. Readers of this blog followed the story of the black bear killed by a cracker shell and the unfortunate slaughter of a grizzly family near Two Medicine. Park officials had planned to shoot the mother and take the two cubs to a zoo, but instead they ended up killing the mother and then a cub with a poorly placed tranquilizer dart.

The new rules will allow Glacier to kill bears without the bears showing agressive behavior.

When you favtor in the recent incomptent moutnain goat tranq deaths in the park, you really have to raise and eyebrow at what the future holds.

I’d like to see Glacier National Park manage some of these “problem” bears simply by closing off their general area to human traffic. We don’t live there full time – the bears do. And we should manage that park with such things in mind.