The regime wanted to shoot Yellowstone bears for trophies and open the park to oil and gas exploitation. Rep. Cheney claimed "radicals" were intent on destroying her white privilege and making protection rules that are “needless and harmful to the ecosystem.” If right-reactionary thought processes were not so inverted and twisted, it would be amusing. NOT. Tribal leaders mocked the politician's "surreal" statements reminding her that at the time of Lewis & Clark, 100,000 or more bears roamed the western landscape, and Indians freely occupied the West from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Now there are just 2,000 bears, and Indians are confined to living in poverty on meager reservations.
There are about 700 bears in Yellowstone, but shooting them is obviously not the answer to possible overcrowding--expanding the Park is. If park boundaries cannot be extended to include the entire Yellowstone drainage--it is not immediately clear to US Person why that cannot legally be done--then buffer zones should be established around the Park's borders to protect the ecosystem and its inhabitants from human encroachment.