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...rest of the world. Cody's show, which began touring in the 1880s, re-created Indian attacks on wagon trains and raids on settlers' villages, with Buffalo Bill always riding to the rescue. As a grand finale, the show even re-enacted Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn. Buffalo Bill arrived there too, but this time accompanied by a sign: TOO LATE...
Brown bears. Bighorn sheep. Elk. But also gray-banded king snakes. Ducks. Spiders. Butterflies. Of all God's creatures, great and small, there are apparently few that enterprising Americans are unwilling to slaughter or kidnap in the country's national parks. Poaching in the parks has been a problem since they were founded in the 19th century, but never like this, says Grosz, echoing colleagues across the U.S. "I've been in the business for 30 years, and the problem is definitely at its worst," he says. "They're taking everything." Wildlife-enforcement officials estimate that there...
...season guides. "We've busted folks who have hired guides and said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal...
...bursting at the seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...hard to argue with Coleman. The mine threatens the environment, as well as the social and economic stability, of Yellowstone Park and nearby Wyoming. Exploratory drilling has already scared away many of the area's elk, moose, bighorn sheep and grizzly bears. The project would turn tiny Cooke City, whose winter population is about 100, into a mining town (though Crown Butte proposes the extraordinary measure of segregating its 320 construction workers and 150 miners in a mountainside work camp...