Posted on 10/11/2016 1:37:30 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Hiker hospitalized after bear that 'came out of nowhere' attacks near Sierra Madre - LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bear-attack-sierra-madre-hiker-20161010-snap-story.html
"An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 black bears live in California, though the animals are more commonly seen in Central and Northern California.
The larger and more bellicose grizzly bear was wiped out in the state more than 90 years ago, *although in recent years there has been a modest campaign to reintroduce the animal here."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
There’s talk on the street, it sounds so familiar
Great expectations, everybody’s watching you
People you meet they all seem to know you
Even your old friends treat you like you’re something new
Johnny come lately, the new bear in town
Everybody loves you, so don’t let them down
The bear is being sought on an assault and battery complaint.
Yes, the 120 years is carefully chosen because black bears were near wiped out at that time, around the turn of the century. There were 10 black bear deaths in the last 16 years.
The “continental” U.S. is chosen to eliminate the deaths in Alaska.
Attacks are much more common than deaths. Deaths are chosen to minimize the danger.
All that being said, bear attacks are very rare, but are becoming more common. They are tiny numbers compared to attacks by humans, or even dogs.
Black bears are dangerous, the more so that they become acclimated to humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
I was driving on a dirt road up in the mountains.
I went around a corner and there was a bear in the road walking away from me.
He must have been daydreaming about huckleberries because he hadn’t been paying attention.
He looked over his shoulder and got that look on his face like Bill Clinton had at the debate.
Then, like the song, the bear went over the mountain.
And he went fast over the mountain.
He wasn’t seeing what he could see.
He was hauling donkey!
associate humans with food because hikers and campers are careless about trash and cleanup, and the bears, who are intelligent, become habituated.
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Funny we have signs in Forests and game areas warning if you feed the animals they will become dependent on you and won’t ‘go away’.
Yet WE still hand out food stamps and FREE MONEY and are surprised at the results - the recipients become dependent on you and won’t go away.... etc etc
Hey, hey, hey, Booboo. A pickanick basket.
Naw, they’re fine.
This was important to me because I own about 25 acres of woods in KY and wondered what to do if I came across one (there has actually been one spotted in the neighborhood.
I did the research. I’m no longer worried about it.
Along with angry Muslim male hornets!
RE: “Downtown San Francisco, Berkeley, Pelosi’s vineyard, and Hollywood are all GREAT spots to release wild bellicose grizzlies!”
“Naw, they’re fine.”
(Apparently black bear attacks are VERY rare (11 deaths in the continental US is 120 years))
Then check this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America#2010s
I appreciate the Penthouse humor.
But you oughta have the picture deleted per posting standards.
Don’t need to. Already been there, and a LOT of other sites to. That’s how I got a more complete picture of the whole thing.
Why should I ? You have apparently have done so already Noobie
was he?
“Don’t need to. Already been there, and a LOT of other sites to. That’s how I got a more complete picture of the whole thing.”
hmmm. You said only 11 fatal bear attacks in the last 120 years in the US. My link shows at least that many since 2000 NOT including brown and grizzlies. No wonder you ‘don’t need to’ go to that site.
BTW, if you notice that list, most of the attacks are in canada and alaska. That’s why I was careful to say the ‘continental US”. But to clarify, I really meant lower 48. And one of the reasons there are more attacks there is that the bears in that area may have very little contact with humans.
Where I live (which is the area I talk about) it’s hard to go more than a few hundred yards and not come across a home or farmland. The population around me is sparse, but evenly spread out. The bears have to deal with people at some level all the time. Oddly, it makes them less dangerous.
Lastly, I’m 6’1”, muscular and 240 lbs. I’m formidable to a 200 lb bear, especally standing tall, waving my arms and yelling. It may not matter to a grizzly, but a black bear would have to be rabid to attack me.
I was intentionally leaving out Alaska. But I meant to say “the lower 48” my bad.
See my post before this one. And notice how many of the attacks are in Canada.
Here is a really good rundown from those who actually study this stuff.
http://www.bear.org/website/bear-pages/black-bear/bears-a-humans/119-how-dangerous-are-black-bears.html
Hey, I have to work with what I've got...
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