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.
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I don’t know how accurate this statement is, but I read a comment on an outdoors board about cougar sightings where they aren’t supposed to be. The gist of it was that if the states acknowledged that there were cougars within their borders, it would be an invitation for the Feds to come in and start using the endangered species act, with predictable consequences. It may or may not be true, but it does sound like something Washington would do. It would also explain why so many sightings across the eastern US are dismissed.
Also the state DNRs would be require to make an assessment of their numbers. Very very expensive & manpower intensive far more the their department resources could handle.
We used to live in Oro Valley, AZ and go to church in Oracle. I know of the designated bear hunters that would be alerted when one was spotted in the neighborhood.
A woman had a ranch with , oh I forgot, some kind of specialty animals, and a mama bear got in to the pen and the mama bear was teaching her youngins how to kill them. They then got some kind of HUngarian herd dogs and that kept her animals safe.
One of the hunters told me it was freaky to see the bear after it was skinned. It looked like a man.
We also went to Estes Park and saw no bears. In the nearby town to Boulder, Louisville, there were signs everywhere to be aware of coyotes. There were no dogs in the yards ( short backyard fences) and I think that is because pets have been taken.
But there are plenty of bears in Rose Valley Falls around Ojai, CA. They were at our campground at dusk just feet away from our tent. And at night, I could hear them trudging through the stream.
When I was a kid in Hawaii, I was always afraid of wild boar in the trails we took in the Girl Scouts.
“Colorado has NO bear problem...We have a Leftard problem...”
Right on!!!
Rich liberals and great vistas are always a bad mix...they ruin them every time.
We are in So Cal, up against the mountains, near to Pasadena. We have bears come down on (pizza Monday) before the trash trucks come. You want to see wildlife, come to Pasadena. They come swim in folks’ swimming pools here!
They are everywhere (yes a black bear problem) near, but not in, the Larkspur area where my ex-wife lives.
My daughter went out there a few years ago in a convertible and a “fresh” coconut scented air freshener hanging from the
rear-view mirror.
A bear tore the heck out of her convertible top.
The bear sightings are constant all summer long.
About two weeks ago she noticed one sniffing around her driveway and front door that had been recorded on her ‘Ring’
security camera.
She sent it to me, and it was of a decent size (no cubs or a mate in sight, it was just solo.)
Same in Oregon. But bear hunters can get three tags, last I knew.
Hard to get a tag? That’s nuts.
Slathered in bacon grease.
Welcome to modern game management where politics play a huge role.
Oregon had the ban on hound hunting and baiting of bears enacted by initiative petition, with a lot of out of State money coming in. Game managers tried their best, I suppose: cheaper, more plentiful tags.
Most governmental employees only care about making money, the safety of the general population is of no concern.
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