Idaho sheep station won't graze grizzly area

The U.S. Sheep Experiment Station north of Dubois in eastern Idaho won't turn out sheep in one of its grazing plots because of concerns over grizzly bear habitat. Sandy Miller Hays is a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the sheep station. Hays said the East Summer plot wouldn't have a direct effect on grizzly habitat, but to reach it sheep would have to cross U.S. Forest Service land designated as a sensitive habitat area for grizzlies. "Our allotment has not been shut down," Hays told the Post Register. "We just can't get there."...more

I'm immediately reminded of the old joke with the punch line "you just can't get there from here."

Anyway, somebody up there in Idaho should tell Hays if you "can't get there", then yes, you have been shut down.

After reading many times about grizzlies killing livestock I'm surprised there is no grazing in grizzly bear habitat. And to not even be able to cross habitat when it doesn't have "a direct effect"? I'm thinking that during the cold winters in Idaho those U.S.D.A researchers lost all their gonads. Please take the name Dubois off that place. Besides they don't even spell it right.

Come to think of it, there is a scientific explanation for what is happening. Those researchers were around so much of that water polluted by livestock ("weapons of mass destruction"), that their gonads shrunk up and sloughed off before they could get to Derlet at the UC Davis Medical Center!