European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 1s the stars and stripes tuesday january 21. 1986 saving grizzlies becomes an Issue by a j. Guffey associated press w weighing up to boo pounds an stretching up to q feet full grizzly bears got More than most when Protection was handed out. In the wild grizzlies Tearno other animal and in the human world their survival is guarded by la. Bui today As the Greal bears slumber through the Winier. Debate has flared anew whether a 17-Yea Campaign to save the grizzlies and increase their numbers is working. When he Effort began in 196b, the grizzly population was flourishing in Canada but had dwindled in the lower 48 states. Just a few Hundred remained of the thousands that had roamed the american West 150 years ago. Most of tha survivors were clustered in and around two Western National works Glacier in Northern Montana and Yellowstone which straddles Wyoming Montana and Idaho. Because Lew other animals Are As evocative of the Wesl As the Mammoth Silver lipped grizzly people became concerned when they Learned the grizzly was in rouble the question no1/ is whether the Short to save the bears has helped or Hurt them. In the january Issue o1 outside Magazine Alston Chase of Livingstone mont., accuses the National Park service of systematically destroying the grizzlies of Yellowstone National Park through the management program adopted in 1968. His t6.00q words Are two chg piers from playing god in Yellowstone the destruction of America $ first National Park to be published in ant. Two years ago Chase former chairman of the philosophy department Al Mac Leslei College in Minnesota and Holder of degrees from Harvard Oxford and Pence ton made environmental headlines with Simitar charges in Atlantic monthly. The oficial and conventional Wisdom is trial the grizzly is declining because of development around Ifie Park and because of increased visitation into the  Chase said in a Telephone interview irom his Montana biome. Lam suggesting something very  Chase said. Today. The biggest killer of grizzlies is  to Back his charge Chase Cilea the deaths of 325 grizzlies in and around Yellowstone since 19eb. He says a Many of those deaths were Al the hands of rangers by shooting when a Bear invaded a campsite Fay  and by Park manage Mem insistence thai dumps be closed and human garbage eliminated irom the grizzly s diet. These Are Stift allegations especially Sines William Penn Mott said saving the grizzly was a major priority almost As soon As he took Over As National Park service chief last summer. Galen Buterbaugh regional director of the u,5 fish and wildlife service in Denver and until a Lew weeks ago chairman dllne2-Ycaf-qldfteral-Slalelnleragency grizzly Bear committee disagrees Wilh Chase. We be reduced the mortality on the bears Buterbaugh said. I would say hey1 re holding their own Al i his Point in Lime that s Aboul As optimistic As we can be the  committee now officially estimates 185 1c 225 grizzlies main Yellowstone Down f of 5qo in 1968. Near Glacier National Park in Northern Montana. He Szoly population s steady growth prompted the beginning of a state sanctioned Hunting season in 1974, Yellowstone superin Tendell Bob Barbee was Blunt m responding to Chase s charges. We believe Chasa has taken some liberties wifi the Dala Barbee said on a recent Visil to Denver. He does a great Deal of Homework on the subject but he does t necessarily draw the High conclusions. We re going to have to go Back and respond to arguments we thought we had Laid to rest Chase begins his january article with a poignant Story. In 1984. He writes Yellowstone rangers watched for some Days As a grizzly sow and. Three cubs trapped by a Spring thaw on an Island in Yellowstone Lake struggled to find Ood. Chase recounts a National Park service decision to let the situation develop  thai s simply a he Barbee said. As soon As we found out those bears were on that Island we moved As last As to humanly possibly  Whon Park officials moved the emaciated bears la Shore the smallest of the cubs died. In another passage seeking numbers to support his assertion the or Lzzie population had dropped Chase quotes a source As saying that or. Richard Knight a Park re Vlco employee who headed he pre committee grizzly Bear study team had told the source thet. In five years he had been Able to find Only 46 grizzlies. Of ,3 Point