Can you really rehab a wild, woolly, and strong-willed young grizzly bear?  In particular, is it possible to set cubs on a straight path after they’ve witnessed their mother killing and feeding upon a human?

In recent weeks, a vociferous public debate has erupted over whether wayward bears can be brought into captivity, rehabilitated, and then turned loose into the wilds from whence they came.

The controversy follows the National Park Service's decision to euthanize a well-known Yellowstone grizzly mother that killed and fed on a hiker in August.

Although the female bear, nicknamed Blaze by wildlife photographers, had never previously caused trouble, Park Superintendent Dan Wenk reasoned that because she partially consumed the man, she—and by extension her impressionable cubs—might