A Canada wildlife preserve offers rental lodges where people can gawk at a pack of wolves just on the other side of giant ground-level picture windows and sliding glass doors.
It’s billed as an up close and personal wildlife experience. While an intriguing tourism draw, Wyoming wildlife experts say trying it with Wyoming’s national parks would be a terrible idea.
“I get nervous that something like that would give people a false sense of security or an unnatural sense of how wolves behave in the wild,” Kristin Barker, a Wyoming wildlife researcher, told Cowboy State Daily.
Such a set-up for admiring grizzlies in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks would be too dangerous, she added.
Greg Jackson, the former deputy chief of the National Park Service division of law enforcement, security and emergency services, agreed that having people gawking at grizzlies through a pane of glass likely wouldn’t end well.
For the bears it could be tempting to see humans so up close and personal — “crunchy on the outside, tasty on the inside,” he told Cowboy State Daily.
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