Pa, that link you provided is .... well full of BS. The map they show is woefully small when it comes to the current range of grizzlys. They are not rare by any strech of the imagination with in outside of yellowstone and glacier national parks. TheSelwayBitterroot Wilderness has grizzlys and the Bob Marshall Wildernessis packed with bears, and both are open to public hunting.
For example, killing a bear that frequents a campground in Yellowstone is going to have no bearing whatever on another grizzly 5 miles away in the same park. To imply that it would, is suggesting they are communicating with each other?
Did you really think that thru before you wrote it? So everytime some hunts something they are succesful? Lords knows no one ever shoots at something and doesnt hit it or just wounds it. Its been said before and I ll say it again, any animal that is pursued by humans is much more secretive and wary than an animal that is not pursued. Momma gets shot at and learns to fear the sight and smell of man, and then she teachs her cubs that. As for reading up on grizzlys, Ive been out west elk hunting in grizzly country, followed down the mountain by a wolf, and stalked by a mt. lion.