Wanted: grizzly bear conflict manager – grappling with bears not required-Successful applicant will patrol Montana wilderness to reduce friction with humans, rather than referee grizzly v grizzly sparring

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[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[BBQToadRibs2]

[BenLurkin]

All you'll need to know is how to tell the humans who want to pet the grizzlies....

[mad_as_he$$]

Of interest?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Kill the humans. That will solve the problem.

[jdsteel]

I’ll take the job.

Here’s my advice to humans: “Do not interact with grizzly bears”.

Send me my money.

[gitmo]

If I was half a century younger I’d apply.

[Red Badger]

Easy job...............

[Sparticus]

“You will go about issuing citations in vast quantities for petty violations of obscure federal regulations and generally being a nuisance for rural residents and persons engaged in outdoor recreation.”

[HighSierra5]

Will they be wearing bells around their necks?

[Paperpusher]

“US government is offering one lucky applicant the chance to spend time in the Montana wilderness, dealing with discord within the world of grizzly bears”

Getting to camp in a tent, see wild life, free exercise, food and get paid too, I wonder why the last grizzly bear manager, ah, went away?

[WMarshal]

Growing up in Montana it was a summer ritual to read at least one story in the Billings Gazette about some idiot being gored/kill by getting way too close to or, believe it or not, actually trying to pet a buffalo.

In my college years I had a summer internship where I had to occasionally feed hay bales to a small buffalo herd. The corral was built of stout steel posts and 4x6” beams like it was for holding a tyrannosaurus rex. A buffalo is to a cattle bull what a wolf is to a terrier.

[Georgia Girl 2]

In other words risking becoming bear poop on a daily basis. 😏

[Blood of Tyrants]

Tell the grizzlies not to interact with humans. A much tougher job.

[Seruzawa]

On their ankles. And armed with pepper spray.

[PeterPrinciple]

This has, on rare occasion, led to attacks on people, leading to calls from Republican legislators in Montana for the ban on hunting grizzlies to be lifted. The federal government has resisted such pressure, instead focusing on efforts to reduce conflict by encouraging better garbage storage, improved fencing around livestock and warning campers to not sleep with food in their tents.

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Viable option but solution is another govt job.

[PIF]

The job, listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, involves managing a team of two to four, with tasks including “trapping, chemical immobilization, monitoring, conflict prevention and relocation efforts”.

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Didn’t work out to well for the bear whisperer.

Will the applicant be “trapping, chemical immobilization, monitoring, conflict prevention and relocation efforts” humans or bears - is unclear.

[PeterPrinciple]

How exactly will success in this job be measured?

[Boogieman]

"rather than referee grizzly v grizzly sparring"

Me: *crumbles up application*