Posted on 12/06/2005 8:29:14 AM PST by george76
A black bear camped out under the porch of a home where four children live - and near where 20 kids wait for the school bus...
Residents...had suspected for several days that a bear was in their midst after they saw their trash cans tampered with.
But it wasn't until two children happened upon the bear on Sunday that its exact whereabouts became clear.
Pedro Sainvil owns the home where the 600- to 700-pound male bear seems to have settled in for hibernation.
On Sunday, Sainvil sent his two children, ages 8 and 9, outside to play in the snow.
"After 15 or 20 minutes, they came back screaming, 'Dad, Dad! There's a bear under the house!'"
"This is a situation that's not uncommon in the Northeast and especially the Poconos area," said Feaser.
"Obviously, the fact that this is across from a school bus stop heightens the concern."
...the bus stop will be moved to another part of the road until the bear is removed.
Feaser said people should bear-proof their homes by blocking crawl spaces and other small spaces that might entice bears during denning season. The space under the Sainvil's porch is open.
Sainvil was most concerned for his family: his wife, their two elementary school-age children and 5-month-old twins, as well as his mother, who has not left the house since Monday.
"It's very scary," said Rose Marie Louis-Jacques, Sainvil's mother.
"I'm just praying that he'll take off. It's like a bomb under the house."
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Exactly.
I've even run into trained biologists who spout stuff about letting nature taking its course.
What's sad is that I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, to the butcher.
Thanks for telling me all of that. It's nice to get an intelligent response from someone instead of crude remarks about the bears. I appreciate it and obviously you have good knowledge of the situation. I hope it is solved soon.
It probably won't get solved until NJ manages to manage its bears better. It really is a habitat vs. numbers management problem. And has rational solutions, although some people don't like it.
Great picture.
Can I re-use it?
Talking often with foresters who have masters degrees in biology, it is often obvious that the forests and the animals therein are not well served by the Sierra Club's lawyers and their political friends (Judges).
The forest and game managers often can not do their jobs scientifically, according to science. They must often ignore biology and science to appease some lawyers or judge who has no training nor education in forestry...biology.
If some forester, who has a masters degreee in biology or forestry, (along with decades of experience) makes a decision...we should accept it.
However for some radical, lefty Judge with no forestry training nor experience, to over rule biology and science on their personal political views is awful. Worse, it will never work.
Thanks again. You have rational points.
Imagine that! A bearskin rug delivered right to your front porch for free!
Why not....I just googled for it. ;)
Probably got sick of trying to find a place to lay down where huge, human-fed herds of deer wouldn't trample him.
But anyway, don't bears estivate, rather than hibernate? ;')
If the town officials decide the bear benefits the community economically by attracting curious tourists they will kick the family out let the bear live there under the new SCOTUS eminent domain ruling.
Your post reminds me of some of the anti-hunting letters and editorials I've recently read in our local paper. Implicit in the anti-hunting (doves to deer) philosophy is the idea that man is an intruder on Earth. I am waiting for someone to tell those people to go back to Jupiter, Mars, Venus, or whatever asteroid they have faith in. Your post, though you may believe otherwise, has within it that same thought process. Regards. ;)
You couldn't be more wrong.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH BEARS!
I'm glad to hear it.
Bears wake up hungry, and possibly with new cubs. Would be best to move this bear immediately, especially if it is female. Cubs are born in the dead of winter. I had a very large grizzly on my property for 10 days this fall, we moved his kill, (another grizzly!), and he took off. I got assurances from Conservation that they would not kill the bear. This situation is different as the bear appears to be in a residential area. He/she should be tranquilized and moved or humanely killed. Kids are more important.
By the way, I've never heard of a 600 or 700 pound black bear. That would be a mammoth male. Bears do not get huge by camping under people's houses, but by avoiding humans altogether.
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