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The bear population in Florida is growing rapidly. The first fatal bear attack recorded in Florida happened this year.
1 posted on 12/08/2025 5:21:33 AM PST by marktwain
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‘Our vision is to create a Florida where people and wildlife coexist in balance and mutual respect.’

lol, what????? Mutual respect? These ppl aren’t living in reality.


2 posted on 12/08/2025 5:24:38 AM PST by 556x45
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But Florida bears aren’t dangerous, they’re pets! The TV told me so!


4 posted on 12/08/2025 5:33:52 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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Those who oppose the hunt can have the bears relocated to their back yard.


6 posted on 12/08/2025 5:38:17 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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I do have some sympathy for the idea that human expansion into more and more wildlife areas is forcing animals, including bears, into more frequent contact with humans. Bears, like other predators, need a certain amount of territory to survive and that is being shut off at least in the Eastern US.


8 posted on 12/08/2025 5:39:30 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Liberals are stupid. They look at bears with the same romanticism they look at wetbacks. The more the merrier.


9 posted on 12/08/2025 5:39:37 AM PST by LouAvul (The Old Testament is merely history. We only follow the New Testament, as well we must. )
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“ Our vision is to create a Florida where people and wildlife coexist in balance and mutual respect.”

How does one teach the concept of respect to a bear?

L


11 posted on 12/08/2025 5:40:48 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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What a frivolous lawsuit. I hope the court ordered this “charity” to pay fees.


12 posted on 12/08/2025 5:44:45 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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The other option is to create a Florida eco-tourism office which caters to the left in the state & encourages them to go out, hike/camp & enjoy nature...

I’m good with that ;-)


13 posted on 12/08/2025 5:50:44 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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I recall driving east across Hwy 70 one morning. A bear was belly up on the shoulder. A few yards later, a 10+ft gator was belly up on the highway shoulder. I suspect the two were wrestling, and neither saw the truck that hit them.


15 posted on 12/08/2025 6:00:53 AM PST by NautiNurse (Start by admitting from cradle to tomb, it isn't that long a stay. Life is a cabaret! )
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If you could train the bears to eat just pythons .......


17 posted on 12/08/2025 6:07:08 AM PST by alternatives?
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Black bear is good eating, the fat is second to none for pastry and biscuits and pie crusts. Sous vide @ 160F for at least 30 min kills any parasites stone cold dead without making the steaks shoe leather. Crockpot the fat and trimmings filter the oil through a coffee fabric not paper coffee filter it’s wonderful white fat. It can be people if they have been eating berries if it’s blue that’s warfarin it’s poison the whole animal is wasted then.


19 posted on 12/08/2025 6:08:18 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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they need to kill these frickin coyotes here too. they are OUT OF CONTROL


27 posted on 12/08/2025 6:39:06 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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A story for Beau! Maybe a trip to FL in January would be better than a trip to the U.P. or Alaska? :0
29 posted on 12/08/2025 6:42:50 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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It’s just fifferent cultures coexisting.....like muslim immigrants in sweeden raping whomever they want and the white women running for their lives or submitting.

Bears and people...let the cultures coexist, until one is sufficiently gone.


32 posted on 12/08/2025 6:55:07 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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Im from N Fla. Growing up seeing a bear was like seeing a unicorn. Now I guess they are attacking people in their garages and yards. Time for some bear hunting.


33 posted on 12/08/2025 7:04:19 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Judges should have no legal jurisdiction over matters involving wildlife.


37 posted on 12/08/2025 7:22:10 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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God’s Own Drunk - Jimmy Buffet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-HokYVm8Q


38 posted on 12/08/2025 7:26:16 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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“A Florida circuit judge refused to halt the long-planned and anticipated Florida bear hunt.”

My, how magnanimous of this judge.

Is there ANYTHING federal judges don’t stick their noses into anymore?

39 posted on 12/08/2025 7:30:02 AM PST by daler
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“Mutual Respect”-Rainbows and Unicorns!
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It’s Not that They ‘Love’ animals,
They Hate People!


43 posted on 12/08/2025 7:59:42 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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Classic video of a woman trying to stop a bear from eating her kayak (if you can stand listening to her):

Black Bear Gnaws on Delta 15s Seakayak in Berg Bay, Alaska

47 posted on 12/08/2025 9:21:20 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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