Posted on 09/26/2014 6:04:16 PM PDT by Coleus
— To Alexis Simms, a custodian at Augusta Elementary School, it was "just a cub, the cutest thing you had ever seen." But to animal control officers and the local police who had tracked it for more than an hour through the closely packed backyards of this Essex County town, it was an addled and frightened black bear that had reared up as if to charge.
Taking no chances, the police shot and killed the 218-pound bear about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. It was the second bear in five days to be killed after wandering into an urban area where a new state bear management policy allows the animals to be shot and killed. Wildlife officials said the Irvington bear was 1 or 2 years old.
New Jersey's most densely populated areas have been designated "bear management zones," where local authorities are being trained to tranquilize bears and move them to state-run wildlife areas. But if a bear creates a hazard, Department of Environmental Protection officials can order that it be killed, as happened on Wednesday, said Elaine Makatura, a department spokeswoman.
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What happened to the Rutgers student was tragic.
It makes me angry whenever people laugh off the idea that hikers might encounter bears and the bears could harm them.
Really now? A 200 lbs cub?? NY Slimes at work again.
“the bears are all over the place and one just mauled a college student to death last week while hiking in the woods.”
I was planning a hike at that same preserve in a few weeks about 10 miles west of me, having second thoughts since our wonderful NJ lawmakers won’t even let us carry bear mace.
That incident took place 10 miles south of me in a place I've been hunting for 30 years. There has never so many bear in this particular area as there is now. I refuse to enter those woods without ”protection".
Which ethnic cuisine is the best for serving bear meat?
;^)
No clue, I can’t cook.
In that sense, it is very “urban” indeed.
Yes, it is part of a quite densely populated area.
Bear meat is very good.....I shot one in Alaska at the outskirts of a blueberry thicket. Very sweet, tender and I thought all bear meat was a deep dark reddish purple. I shot one later in PA and couldn’t stand the smell while gutting him out. Certainly couldn’t find a way to cook it that made him palatable. Went back to the area to scout out the terrain and found an open pit county dump within 3 miles of where I was going to hunt. Mystery solved.
The ones I’ve taken have both been good eating, one in the mountains of Arizona and the other had been raiding an apple orchard in Oregon. It all depends on what they’ve been eating. East of town we have the city dump and feral hogs raid it nightly, ten miles farther and we have the ranch where hogs feed in open pastures. The pasture hogs are fine eating but the dump hogs are horrible. Last week I got into a sounder on the ranch and took a 175 lb sow and six smaller ones around 35 to 45 lbs I kept the little ones and gave the sow to the ranch hand. I split the little ones and cook them on the grill, I have one marinating right now and I’ll throw it on the grill Sunday along with some grilled corn on the cob, grilled onions and a pot of Pinto beans and corn bread. Maybe a few Dos Equies thrown in just to wash it down.
yea, they make it sound like it was a defenseless little baby.
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