Posted on 06/19/2016 10:05:57 PM PDT by george76
Sister lives up at Pigeon Forge, works for a lodge, idiots despite all kinds of warning signs feed them, try to pet them (kids) take photos, leave trash on their cabin porches, and Bears are dumpster divers.
Not allowed to hunt them. So if one bites a stupid kid or visitor it gets put down, not just relocated. You provide a convenient food source you will keep finding them, and with man growing his space, they have less places to go to hunt the natural foods they’d eat.
Ditto goes for deer coming across a hwy from a small wooded area.
We live on the opposite end of TN, Atoka, just outside Memphis, rural, so we see armadillos, possums, skunks, snakes, tics, moles in our yards or as road kill. Once in while a deer.
Easy winter last year.
Because New Yorkers don’t shoot ‘em.
^^^^^This
When we first moved to the Poconos in PA in the ‘80’s there were about 2,500 bears in PA. Last count I saw was that there are over 18,000 here. Hard to believe there are only 6-8Kbears in NY. Plus they don’t respect borders.
BBLM
Guess they're not where I hunt.
We’ve had many here in our local area in the last months too. Central MD.
Daniel Boone was a man....
But Davy, Davy Crockett...kilt him a bar when he was only 3.
This is the very intention of bear season.
The key to safely living near bears is to know you are living near bears...... I recently moved to a house in a large wooded area. None of my neighbors had ever seen a bear, but within 6 months I’d had them on my patio, cleaning out the bird feeder. Up went the trail cameras and soon I had 5 different bears identified.
I pulled in the bird feeders/garbage cans and passed on buying a BBQ grill. So far that seems to have worked, as no more sightings near the house. A few weeks back this big fella made an appearance a few hundred yards up in my backyard:
https://youtu.be/CDTZx30ymno
You can peruse my YouTube channel (my channel is keystone117)for other bear/wildlife videos. You deer hunters might like a video of the hefty buck I call The Mailman, as he lives in the brush right behind my mailbox. At first sighting I thought he was a small elk......
Yep...Tourists in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg don’t pay any attention to the warning signs...I was raised in Townsend...Just down the park border about 15 miles...
By age three, Chuck Norris pointed at the bear and the bear killed himself.
My guess is the leftist propaganda and tactics have caused a drop in Hunting and hunters. Therefore, more bears.
It’s a cause and effect thing. At least NYC is insulated and that’s all that counts, right?
In western states the city kids , who think that food comes from a can or a box, have taken over the former Lands of Many Uses.
Then , they use clever ticks like : vacate existing federal grazing allotments to bankrupt ranchers, sheep herders, and farmers ... -2- New wilderness areas to increase illegal immigration and help drug cartels. -3- Sue and settle .. The predator populations soon explode.
Nor elsewhere in the US. Which is why we had a child fall into a gorilla den, and one snatched near the waters edge by a croc. BRAIN DEAD PARENTS. I used leashes on my boys that young and sure as heck would have kept a 2 year old away from an area that said danger crocs. Would not have even taken myself or dog down around there.
In mild defense of the parents it did not say “danger crocs”, it said “no swimming”. But any body of water that looks like a swamp or natural pond, I would not let a child walk in it, especially after dark. My concern would be bugs and disease, and snakes, even if I had no concern about alligators. Not to speak of unknown depth. I do think parents today seem to have some weird assumption that everything is safe unless specifically stated otherwise. The gorilla parents are a different matter entirely- never take your eyes off a child in a public place (especially like a zoo) because there are human predators everywhere. And apparently the child had already expressed the desire to play in the water within the enclosure.
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