Posted on 08/01/2010 8:58:12 AM PDT by george76
Wildlife officials have killed a grizzly bear in Wyoming and a grizzly bear in Montana to head-off potential lawsuits.
The Montana grizzly killed and partially consumed Kevin Kammer at a Gallatin National Forest campground near Cooke City, Mont. on July 29. The Wyoming grizzly killed 70 year-old botanist Erwin Evert on June 17 on the Shoshone National Forest near the East Entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
The circumstances were quite different, but the decision to kill the bears was undoubtedly influenced by a 1996 court case over the terrible bear mauling of 16 year-old Anna Knochel at a U.S. Forest Service campground near Tucson, AZ. She was mauled by a bear that had recently inflicted minor injuries on another girl. Knochel and her family filed a $15 million lawsuit against the State of Arizona (Arizona Game & Fish Department) and the Forest Service.
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Yup...they love birdseed. They can be a problem if they don’t fear humans.
You’ve given me this wonderful picture of Ursus arctos horribilis strolling the streets of San Francisco, looking for twisted liberals (unarmed of course) for a late night snack...thanks!
I heard one moving through our yard outside our six foot chain link fence Thursday night/Friday morning at 3:00 AM while I was letting one of my dogs out. If my dog had been outside the fence, there would likely have been a fight and while my dog weighs 121 pounds, my money would have been on the bear. We were lucky that time.
Never seen a black bear that wouldn’t prefer to be in a tree than tangling with a dog. That’s why the animal rights wackjobs, with their out-of-state money, getting hound hunting banned in Oregon really pissed me off. Hmmm...a run-on sentence ending in a preposition. What a way to start the day.
That’s good to know. I would hate to lose my dog.
what county in Idaho do you live in?
Boundary
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