Posted on 08/23/2024 5:51:35 AM PDT by marktwain
A flurry of black bear attacks has been covered in the media in the summer of 2024. Five people were injured in the attacks. The first occurred in Alaska at a campground near Anchorage, by a male bear. The bear injured a woman’s face after scratching and biting its way into the couple’s tent. She was treated at a hospital.
There was no food or other items that usually attract bears inside the tent and it’s not clear what prompted the rare encounter, Wardlow said. “These folks who were involved did everything right and this is just a very unusual situation where that bear still tried to get into their tent, even without there being any attractant involved.” – ADN NEWS
On June 25th, what was likely the same bear attempted to break into an occupied tent.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – A male black bear was shot and killed by a U.S. Forest Service officer Tuesday morning after it was found trying to break into an occupied tent near Portage.
It’s not the first time in recent days that officials have dealt with a bear encounter in the area. Earlier this month, one person was hurt when a black bear jumped on a tent with people inside just off the Portage Glacier Road. The person was not seriously hurt, but did sustain injuries in the June 14 encounter. — Alaska’s News Source
On July 10th, an ultra long-distance runner, Jon-Kyle Mohr, was attacked as he was finishing a 50-mile run in Yosemite Park. Fortunately, his injuries were not severe. From NY Post:
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We have a right to arm bears!......................
But does the bear have a right to bear arms?
My daughter, who lives just west of Concord, Massachusetts, had a black bear on her porch a couple of weeks ago. She also has a couple of yappy dogs. The dogs would probably have taken after the bear if they had been outside.
All joking aside, black bears rarely attack humans without provocation.
No most of the time black bear attacks are predatory.
Not clear?
The bear was hungry. Bears eat meat. Humans are meat. So in that regard, there WAS food in the tent.
True. Starving bears, sick bears, old bears are usually the ones that attack- (and also mother bears if they feel cubs are threatened)
That depends on whether they modified the definition of ‘people’.
I wish that was purely sarcasm.
I’ve settled on a laser equipped G20 for such purpose - a new activity for me, in the forest - and will be practicing some unconventional stances for such a scenario.
But if attacked, I’m confident that it won’t shoot back. /s
Now the other ‘wildlife’ - cartel, etc. - is another matter altogether and the only reason I’m also considering a red dot sight for the weapon.
uh, the report says there was human meat in the tent.
It usually starts with raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, fisher or even bobcat. Eventually the bear comes to visit. Once the bears figure out they can get an easy meal in YOUR backyard they will not leave until that food source is exhausted.
I have witnessed this countless times in the last twenty years via the local Facebook pages. Same story every time.
The only recourse is either electrify the perimeter of the coop or shoot, shovel and shut up. The other option is get rid of the chickens.
No food except two humans. Nothing between them and every bear in the county except a thin tent. Let me guess, they’ve voting for Kamala.
Concord has plenty of bobcats. Scary muthers,but they seem to avoid humans. My daughter has a bird feeder on the porch and that was what the bear was doing. The local police advise against putting up bird feeders. Bears have been seen in West Concord, which is more thickly settled than the rest of the town.
This was pretty much true after the bears had learned to avoid humans because humans are much deadlier than bears. The bear population was very low, probably at its lowest level, by about 1900-1910. A good bear hide was worth about 20-50 dollars,or about 1-2 ounces of gold. At that time, bears were very respectful of humans.
It stayed that way until about 1970. Then bears started to get significant protections. Hunting seasons became highly regulated. Disney and others portrayed bears a cute and cuddly. A complete flip has happened. Bears are becomeing unafraid of people where they are not hunted. They learn people are a good source of food, and do not harm them.
As bears become more habituated to people, they respect people less and less. Then, they often became troublesome, if not dangerous pests, and have to be dealt with.
The solution is to teach bears to respect people. Do not allow bears to steal from people. Allow people to defend themselves and their property against trespassing bears. Bears will quickly learn to avoid people.
Should be: They learn people are a good source of food, and pose no threat to the bear.
True. State parks deal with the bears with noisemakers, abd bean bag guns to drive them off, so slowly the bears are, .earning to avoid human areas.
I don’t even walk my dog to the river without a 44 on my hip. We don’t get bears often and the few that are around are pretty skittish. BUT some environazis thought it would be good to introduce a bunch of wolves.
NH Fish & Game advises to take down your bird feeders on April 1st. Do not put them back up until Thanksgiving or after.
Ten years ago we never saw a bobcat. Now, people post pictures of them on game cameras or just in their backyard hanging around. They are mostly nocturnal. Same as fishers. Which are almost only nocturnal.
Fishers and coyotes are a much bigger killer of house cats around here. Fishers will wait in a tree in your back yard. When you put Fluffy out to do her business before bed the fisher cat will sneak attack from above.
A pack of Coyotes will surround a cat or small dog and kill it.
At least now the cottontail rabbit has made a big come back in the last few years. They are everywhere around here(west of Nashua) now. This spring I found a hind leg from a rabbit about 20’ from my garage door. I guess it was not “lucky” for the bunny.
The more rabbits, the more bobcats, coyotes, fishers and other predators to survive on.
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