Growing wildlife bureaucracy coincided with grizzly retreat from the lower states

Evidence

In 1909, when I first saw the West, there were grizzlies in every major mountain mass, but you could travel for months without meeting a conservation officer. Today there is some kind of conservation officer ‘behind every bush,’ yet as wildlife bureaus grow, our most magnificent mammal retreats steadily toward the Canadian border. Of the 6000 grizzlies officially reported as remaining in areas owned by the United States, 5000 are in Alaska. Only five states have any at all. There seems to be a tacit assumption that if grizzlies survive in Canada and Alaska, that is good enough. It is not good enough for me. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 706

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the ch9/ch13 theme that organized management can undercut rather than aid what it professes to protect. — connects to: Species extinction and pest irruption signal sickness in the land organism — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 689; Federal wildlife bureaucracy served game species rather than most wild species until 1974 — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 840

Broader Connections

• Federal wildlife bureaucracy served game species rather than most wild species until 1974 #expands (0.80) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 840