Posted on 11/11/2019 5:30:42 AM PST by george76
Colorado has a bear problem. Pure and simple, we have too many bears.. When I was a kid growing up .. my brother and I spent a lot of time in the woods. We were hiking, backpacking, exploring, hunting and climbing around all the time in the high country. Never once did we see a bear. I clearly recall the first time I ever saw a bear in the woods, and I was 31 years old, in 1993. Not too long after that, I took over the outfitting permits in Marble, Colorado, and I remember one day when I saw seven bears. Three of them were on my neighbor’s front porch.
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Ask any outdoorsman, and they’ll tell you that the bears are out of control ... They’re brazen as hell,” he said. “I’ve walked up on about 15 different bears this archery season. Two of them were practically underfoot. I mean, they got up a couple of feet away. They just stand there and look at you
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Many residents of mountain towns will tell you the same thing — bears are everywhere.
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Colorado Parks & Wildlife recently posted the results of a study that showed Colorado has more than double the number of bears than they, the masters of wildlife wisdom, thought we had.
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bears snack on fawns and elk calves like you snack on hors d’oeuvres at a cocktail party.
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How did this happen? In 1992, those on the Front Range sponsored an amendment to the Colorado Constitution to ban spring bear hunting.. traditional methods of bear hunting
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So, you say, what’s next? Wolves. Yes, wolves. The same cadre that won the hearts and minds of all the Front Range liberal voters is aggressively pursuing wolf introduction to Colorado.
(Excerpt) Read more at deltacountyindependent.com ...
The black bears at my house come out at dusk and pick the blueberries in the garden.
Oregon banned the hunting of either with dogs or bait, and Cali banned cougar hunting, altogether. Wolves are being reintroduced. Those things, alone, would make your statement true.
my family and I were in Estes Park CO last month; wanted so much to see a bear, saw none. We saw moose, elk, mule deer but no bears.
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You must have missed the sign just as you enter the town at the sharp turn, ‘bear left’.
...thank you Bobby Bacala.
LOL
Yes, bear populations are way up all over the United States and Canada.
So are human populations.
So are bear attacks.
Our ancestors were not stupid. They eliminated the large predators for good reasons.
These days, if you go hiking in the woods in Colorado, it’s best to pack a .45 auto or a .44 Automag.
In order to find bears, look for their scat. You can identify it from the odor, it smells like bear spray, and it contains tiny little bells.
Leftists gun grabbers have been successful in trying to make us less able to defend ourselves.
Introducing Canadian wolf packs is part of that agenda.
Same in Vermont only we don’t have the wolf problem “yet”.
Introducing Canadian wolf packs is part of that agenda.
It is more likely they are aiming at reducing the demand/need for hunters.
The idea is to reduce the number of hunters, wean the population away from owning guns.
We have a bear problem in Durango.
We have lots of deer in town, too.
The author is right. Out of state tree huggers funded the campaign to AMMEND THE CONSTITUTION to outlaw baiting and hounds. You can’t hunt them very effectively by hunting them like deer and elk. Now they are out of control. You can see the news stories every fall of the bears wandering through mountain towns.
How are they going to change that? This is why I oppose amending the constitution via referendum.
It almost reminds me of Japan, because there is almost no hunting allowed and the wild boars there have exploded. They root up everything and the elderly (70% of ag workers) have no way to kill them.
They were. And now they are out of control.
That said, they need to be hunted with hounds, to keep them afraid of contact with man.
Great idea! Too bad the tree huggers got that banned.
Every year I hunt right where the author is from. I can personnaly attest to the accuracy of his writings. Elk are WAY done and Bears are way up.
We have trail cam pic in Michigan of cougar, the DNR says there is no evidence. Two years in a row black bears have traveled south down the Lake Michigan shoreline, until they had to be tranquelized snd removed. It is only a mattet of time until someone gets hurt.
my family and I were in Estes Park CO last month; wanted so much to see a bear, saw none. We saw moose, elk, mule deer but no bears.
Be carefull what you wish for. I had the same wish for a long time. I traveled the west installing FFA radars on mountain tops for years. I have great pictures of all kinds of wildlife and have been in some hair raising situations with moose, badgers and wolves. Never saw a bear in the wild til a few years ago in Glacier National Park. My son-in-law and I went fishing and ran into a black bear just a couple yards from us. I knew I could out run my son-in-law but we were both just transfixed on staring this bear down.Fear, goose bump raising terror. Luckily it was more interested in the huckleberries than a spry old man and his short legged fishing partner.
I grew up in southern Arizona. My dad was close to the famous Lee brothers in Tucson and I got my first puppy from them. They were known through out the west for their prowess hunting and capturing pumas/catamounts. They would tree the cats and lasso them out of the tree. Caged, they took them back to the ranch and would sell them to zoos.
Once in a blue moon, they would go bear hunting, but had to use a different pack of hounds for the chase. Their dogs were worth a fortune.
Colorado has NO bear problem...We have a Leftard problem...
Left alone the bears would naturally thin that population in time...There’s really no downside, because in general predators only eat Libs...Most of us are smart enough in the ways of nature to pack sufficient heat when we go about in the woods...
More bear tags and liberal hunting seasons would good.
We are having the same problems here in Wis.
Lots of bears hard to get a tag.
I live and hunt bears in prime bear habitat.
Yes to many bears cause problems.
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