Posted on 03/23/2024 4:52:43 AM PDT by Sam77
We are kind of used to bears here in the Great Land. Bears, and other big critters like moose, have always been here, and we are used to living around them. That's relevant at the moment, as the other day a friend of ours who lives back in the hills away from the highway sent us a photo of about a 9-inch wide print of a grizzly that had walked through the snow right next to their garage; yes, our bears are waking up, and they are hungry.
But in the lower 48, most folks don't live around these enormous apex predators. Since their population density is generally higher and there are a lot more livestock around, some folks in northern Washington state are rightfully perturbed at the idea that the Biden administration is accelerating plans to move some of these Volkswagen-sized death machines into their neighborhoods.
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what do you have against grizzly bears? They should not be punished by having to go to Haiti.
Making war on rural people. Again.
Here in southern New Hampshire, we have a Black Bear who has “visited” our back deck twice in the past week. I have had to relocate our electric fence to discourage it.
I am so thankful that we don’t have Grizzlies here! Of course, Biden isn’t finished, yet!
You can’t pick your newcomers. The government makes all your decisions.
They could help clean up NYC.
I have a wanderingblack bear population om severa grpwn up pastures that have over 200 wild apple trees. The black bears come out for two weeks to feed, each tree havuing a circle of apple sauce under it about 15 feet in diameter , 4 inches or so deep.
They do not bother me but during that fall season, I carry a 7 round 12 guage pump action assault shotgun loaded with slugs and 00 Buck.
Haven’t had a problem yet.
I remind myself that if I shoot one, the blood smell will draw more bears from up to 20 miles away and I will have many more bears. People do not realize this. If you do shoot one, move it far out away from your home or barn, or bury it deep with quick lime immediately. Where we are is good because the ganee wardens will come and haul a dead bear away if you have to shoot one.
If I remember correctly, there is a Grizzly refuge in southern Colorado that has not seen a Griz for decades or longer.
https://gazette.com/news/grizzly-sunset-a-journey-into-colorados-final-refuge-for-the-great-bear/article_78a7b296-1812-55f3-9436-525ae1dd1d80.html
Good to know.
Paging Timothy Snackwell.
I am reminded of what was said about the Anchorage to Fairbanks AK road decades ago.
“If you stop, and get out of your car on that road, suddenly you are no longer at the top of the Food Chain.”
This is ridiculous.
You can’t put them in Northern California because you just destroyed our dam and contaminated everything within 100 miles!
Grrrr! I hate busy body envirofreaks social engineering BS!
Yes....and when you take out your food locker and start up you BBQ for burgers, you have become a nom , nom Bear Nack!
Living 45 miles from the Canadian border here in North Idaho, we have Grizzlies. Where I live sits directly between two Grizzly “Recovery Zones”. The last few years the Feds have had to put down at least 3 Grizzlies that have attacked livestock and threatened human habitation.
When folks bring up the “historical range” to justify not killing them or to support the recovery zones, what they fail to mention is that humans were in the lower 48 before Grizzly bears: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/05/grizzly-bears-are-migrants-to-the-lower-48/
Now I know you didn’t say this, but the “they were here first crowd” has no idea what they are talking about. Those folks just hate rural Americans.
Humans are meat in a skin bag to these hungry creatures.
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A great place to release grizzlies, wolves and alligators would be directly into the camps of homeless bums. Plenty of those in wa, or and ca.
Okay. Relocate them to Seattle, then.... :0)
Pump action assault shotgun?
Does it have a selector switch for full-auto?
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On a serious note, I understand that game wardens in grizzly country carry 12 gauge shotguns stoked with slugs for protection against them.
What??? Jellystone isn’t reality? No...tell me it isn’t so.
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