It is "amazing"....:))
Yeah, when you're coming up on the Beall Street exit, look up on the ridge. That deck sticks out like a big white growth on the back of the house. LOL (I told her not to paint it, just stain it, but nooooooo........)
Posted on 02/04/2005 6:27:52 AM PST by tgslTakoma
ANNAPOLIS — A bill introduced yesterday would save the black bears of Western Maryland — by spreading them into every county of the state.
House Minority Leader George C. Edwards of Garrett County offered the modest proposal in part to highlight differences between rural and suburban parts of the state.
For years, Mr. Edwards and his Western Maryland colleagues have watched as lawmakers from suburban jurisdictions — such as Prince George's and Montgomery counties — have tried to enact laws banning bear hunts.
"If these people want to tell us we have to live with the bears, they should be willing to accept the bears," the Republican lawmaker said.
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His bill would require that black bears be trapped and released in other parts of the state, balancing Western Marylanders need to get rid of the bears with suburban Marylanders desire to protect the creatures.
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Last fall, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) officials allowed the first black bear hunt in 51 years, in an effort to thin the populations in the mountains of Garrett and Allegany counties and to reduce human-bear conflicts. They set a kill limit of 30 bears and halted the hunt after 20 were killed in a single day.
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Delegate Barbara Frush, Prince George's County Democrat, last week introduced her second attempt to ban black bear hunting in Maryland.
So far, her bill has 24 co-sponsors.
Mr. Edwards' push to disseminate the animals across Maryland is "ridiculous," she said.
"I think it makes a mockery of what the real intent of my bill is," Mrs. Frush said. "He's trying to make fun of something that I, and others, feel is very important."
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Already got 'em but they're disguised as "coyotes".
They've been DNA tested and they're wolf hybrids.
You think "coyote" and envision the little scrawny guys out west.
These ain't them.
Ours are nearly the size of German Shepherds and do *not* fear humans.
A pack of them watched my 70 year old dad from the ridge above my house and then started slowly coming toward him.
Luckily, he got back to the truck [and his rifle] before he found out what they were up to.
Farmers have to bring their cows and sheep into the barns for their spring birthings now.
It is "amazing"....:))
Yeah, when you're coming up on the Beall Street exit, look up on the ridge. That deck sticks out like a big white growth on the back of the house. LOL (I told her not to paint it, just stain it, but nooooooo........)
Birds are undoubtedly now using it as a navigational guide.
[and NASA probably does too]...;))
In case our brain-dead state politicians haven't noticed, the black bear population here in the Northeast is getting out of hand. Here in NYC several have already been seen in the northern Bronx. While I love bears as much as the next guy some of these cuddly little creatures have been known to stroll around with an extremely pissed-off attitude.
Oh bloody hell.
That's just up the pike from me.
Seems like getting an AR-15 last month was good timing.
I tote a 30.30 lever action Winchester on my ATV at all times.
The 30.30 is good powerful gun but now the second it takes to jack the lever seem too long.
[We also have an "ultimate varmint gun" .12 ga. Mossberg but it would knock me clear off the ATV if I ever tried to shoot it....:))
What the "Smokey" lovers don't understand is, that *if* one attacks, "playing dead" is pointless.
They won't get bored and leave like other bears will/might.
Normally they avoid confrontation but a sow with a cub is disaster waiting to happen.
Tragically, a lot of non-rural denizens would feel compelled to approach the "mommy and her adorable baby".
What part of the Bronx? I'm in Riverdale.
If I remember right(I heard it on the radio)Van Cortlandt park, I think. I do remember it was some park and they said it was the second bear sighting that year (2004)
Where I come from, black bears find and feed upon newly born fawns in the spring. Since we tend to favor the deer, a local saying has generated: Kill a bear, save a deer. But the way most people drive, akin to bats fleeing purgatory, the deer population, along with other wildlife, is depleted on a daily basis.
1--Many years ago I saw Sam Donaldson -- Sam Donaldson! of ABC -- talk of how the wolves on his New Mexico ranch were taking so many lambs he thought he should leave out mint jelly for them. This was on Letterman. He then suggested that the "reintroduction", greenie, dumb ass people should put a few of those wolves in Central Park. Point is: even a mouthpiece for commies like Donaldson understood the absurdity of greenie stupids.
2--The other thing I think of is this: Oh, man o man, or there some neat parks and greenbelts in Columbia, MD that are so full of white wine drinking, commie, blue state, leftist un-Americans that the only really American thing to do is to let the bears out to do the dirty work. Afterall, as they said in the cold war, some times you eat the bear, some times the bear eats you. When it comes to the greenie, leftists f!!cks in places like Columbia.... it's time the bear eats a few of them.
"I think it makes a mockery of what the real intent of my bill is," Mrs. Frush said. "He's trying to make fun of something that I, and others, feel is very important."
Yes. And your point is?
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