To understand the deep rift about federal regulation of endangered species, one only had to sit in the stands of the annual 4 H auction at the Boundary County Fairgrounds here last month, when 14 year old Jasmine Hill's pig, Regina, went up for sale. First, it's important to know the back story: A few weeks earlier, Jasmine's father, Jeremy, had been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with shooting a grizzly bear it's a federally designated threatened species 40 yards from the back door of the family home at the base of the Selkirk Mountains.
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