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Jackson, Wyoming
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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Griz shooting sparks hunt protest After hunters kill bear in Teton park, critics call for changes in elk reduction program. By Mike Koshmrl A hunter who was yards away when others killed a grizzly in Grand Teton National Park on Thanksgiving Day described a volley of shots and then shocked men retreating from the woods. Charles Peet, of Jackson, said Monday that he was hunting “75 to 100 yards” from where 48-year-old David Trembly, of Dubois, and Trembly’s 20- and 17-year-old sons gunned down the adult male bear. Peet, 80, was standing in the clearing east of heavy timber near Schwabachers Landing and was the first person the Tremblys encountered following the incident, he said. “The father and the two sons walked by me into the woods” on their way to hunt elk, Peet said. “Shortly after that, I heard rapid fire — three to four shots.” Peet, who didn’t see the encounter, said the sons were clearly in a state of “semi-shock” when they emerged from the woods. The bear was likely feeding on a cow elk carcass that was found nearby, the park said. Park officials investigating the incident haven’t said whether the three hunters deployed bear spray before the shooting. In a statement, park officials said the bear reportedly charged the hunters, who were licensed to shoot elk as part of the park’s “elk reduction program.” The first grizzly death tied to Grand Teton National Park’s hunt renewed calls for park officials to shut the Snake River bottomland near Schwabachers to hunting. One critic has started an online petition to end the park hunt, collecting 242 signatures by Tuesday. Another critic called for Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott to resign, saying he warned her and Wyoming Game and Fish Supervisor Scott Talbott last year that a hunter-killed grizzly could be a See GRIZ SHOOTING on 20A
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Wyoming Game Warden Jerry Longobardi checks the license of young hunter Nicholas Frank, 12, after he and his sister, Bridget, 15, shot an elk Nov. 19 near Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park.
Park elk on the run As a veteran game warden watches, the seamy side of the Grand Teton National Park elk hunt unfolds. By Miller N. Resor The Tetons are glowing pink in the valley’s first light as Wyoming Game and Fish warden Jerry Longobardi’s green pickup truck crests the rise above the National Elk Refuge. He is on his way to monitor the elk reduction program in Grand Teton National Park, one of the many duties he’s performed in his 29 years on the job. On this day two weeks ago, his field biologist credentials come second to his law enforce-
ment training, but he has no problem patrolling the hunt. “Look at that view,” he says of the Tetons. “You never get tired of that.” What he sees next is more unsettling: At Antelope Flats he spots a herd of what he estimated to be 75 elk out in the open sagebrush. Hunters begin to approach from the southwest. The elk move west, toward the Snake River and safety, but balk. More hunters move toward the herd until the group is surrounded on three sides. The elk are already moving when the first shots ring out. They race back and forth, then huddle. Steam rises from their heated bodies. They are confused, on edge. “They don’t know where to go,” Longobardi says. “It’s times like this I start rooting for the elk.” See PARK ELK on 20A
Lazy Moose showdown to decide rural party rules County commissioners hope to resolve long dispute next week. By Kevin Huelsmann Loring Woodman’s and Melody Lin’s deck above Wilson looks over the pristine beauty of Jackson Hole. The couple figured their rural home
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would have all the protections of a residential neighborhood in western Wyoming. It’s a place where trumpeter swans fly by, moose cavort and elk are seen migrating. But one night in June 2011 Woodman awoke to unfamiliar, mechanical sounds outside his window. He walked on the deck and was hit by diesel fumes. “It almost choked me,” he said. He jumped in his car — wearing boxer shorts and a robe — and followed 2A 3A 8A
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several shuttles leaving the neighboring property, the Lazy Moose Ranch events center just off Fish Creek Road. Woodman trailed them all the way to the Four Seasons Resort at Jackson Hole and watched them unload their guests. Parties at the Lazy Moose can include as many as 100 guests. It’s that kind of traffic that worries Woodman. “My life up here is at stake,” Woodman said Monday, sitting at his kitchen 9A Feds seize dino skull 10A Critics hit park cell tower 10A More wilderness sought
table with Lin. “This isn’t what I came up here to put up with.” Woodman, who owns the Darwin Ranch, didn’t raise a stink when the parties began next door 10 years ago. The neighboring property owners, Robin and Cherrie Siegfried, told him they were private events, many of which were for nonprofits and charities. He wanted to be a good neighbor. “It’s like motherhood and apple pie,” See RURAL EVENTS on 19A
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