SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Hunters soon could be chasing grizzly bears across the ridges of the Rocky Mountains, leaving three states to come up with plans to ensure the iconic species won't be snuffed out so soon after recovering from threats to their survival.
The Obama administration in March proposed lifting protections for the more than 700 grizzlies around Yellowstone National Park. The bears have been considered a threatened species since 1975, but wildlife officials say their population has sufficiently recovered to turn over management to Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Other grizzly populations in Montana, Idaho and Washington state will remain protected. The grizzlies' Alaska cousin, the brown bear, is not considered a threatened or endangered species and is hunted regularly.
Yay, more unchewably tough meat! On the other hand, as a top predator its recovery does endorse conservation efforts over the past half-century.
(Score: 2) by devlux on Friday May 13 2016, @04:16PM
Hunting is a good thing for mankind.
It allows us an outlet for urges that predate our species. The urge to band together, to stalk something, to kill it and bring it home.
Hunting is a huge part of what makes us, us and it tries to bleed over into our daily lives all the time whether we want to acknowledge it or not.
Despite your own horror and revulsion at the thought, consider this. What is less horrible? Trapping an animal in a small pen never letting it know freedom, fattening it through forcefeeding and then killing it? Or going out into the woods and hunting your supper from whatever the land provides?
As for bear in particular. I've eaten bear. One year when I was about 9 or so we were on a hunt for Deer or Elk or something I don't rightly recall.
Bear got attracted to the smell of the camp. We tried to shew it away but he wouldn't go away even when a warning shot was fired. Dad and an Uncle shot it a few times, finally brought it down on the 4th shot. It was horrific to see in the literal sense of the word. But I was always taught if you kill it, you eat it.
Bear like any meat, is only tough if you don't know how to cook it properly. You have to slow roast it for hours. What you get is like a good quality steak but very greasy due to the amount of intramuscular fat. For some reason and this may have been a family recipe, but for some reason I remember it also having a strong flavor of sagebrush and strawberry. It was pretty good.
Animal ain't a trophy to hang on your wall or decorate your living room.
It's a living being, and it's food and clothing and medicine and a whole host of other things that were necessary to our survival as a species for at least the last half million years or so.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 13 2016, @09:18PM
well then i have to bow to your superior tenderizing powers. i grew up in the rockies and the church had wild game dinners a few times a year. bear was always there and was as tough as shoe leather. i much preferred venison, elk, or duck.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by devlux on Friday May 13 2016, @10:01PM
With any wild game, low and slow is the way to go. Wrapping in foil helps alot.
Also it was mom that could cook like that. Pretty much all skills along these lines skipped my generation, or well skipped me anyways.