Trillhaase: Griz Killing Not Justified

At the Lewiston Tribune, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase criticizes the political grandstanding and deal cut to resolve the grizzly bear shooting case involving Porthill resident Jeremy Hill: Simple fear, however understandable, does not justify shooting an endangered grizzly. Adopt that standard and you’ve nullified a law meant to protect a species that, as the Spokesman-Review’s Rich Landers noted last month, reproduces “at a glacial pace. … A female grizzly doesn’t become sexually mature until she’s 6 or 7. In ideal circumstances, that sow will give birth to a pair of cubs every three years. The sow might produce cubs into her early 20s, although she faces an 8 percent chance of dying each year.”

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