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Posted on 06/18/2010 2:51:49 PM PDT by george76
CODY — Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal mauling Thursday of a Shoshone National Forest cabin owner by a grizzly bear. The incident took place at a site where a bear had been captured and released earlier Thursday.
Erwin Frank Evert, 70, of Cody, was reported missing by his wife to a member of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team that had been conducting research in the Kitty Creek drainage, about 10 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
Researchers had earlier trapped and released an adult male grizzly in the area...
A study team member returned to the capture site and found Evert's body...
Steward said that Evert, who was not armed and was not carrying bear spray, apparently wandered into the capture site sometime after the bear had been released.
Chris Servheen, grizzly bear coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service... said he was unaware of what other public notifications, if any, were routinely made about bear capture efforts.
"The people doing this are highly trained professionals who follow very detailed protocols. One of the most important protocols is public safety,"
Some cabin owners have said they were unaware of research work being done in the area, and questioned whether wildlife and land management agencies were communicating effectively with the public about such activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
“Forget about the pick-a-nick basket, I’m going for the whole thing.”
Bear spray: 00 buckshot in a 3” 12 ga. cartridge followed by a 3” 12 ga. slug fired from the smooth bore of your choice.
Don’t try to shoot a bear with a sidearm unless it’s .44 mag or bigger.
Sad. The bear was being.....bear.
Catch and release.
What could go wrong ?
/s
The dead guy LIVED there, and the Wildlife service dropped the bear nearby! On top of which, the dead guy wasn't told he had a new neighbor, since bears are the property of the Feds, and he would no doubt have been felonized if he had shot the thing.
It would obviously be your fault if the Feds put an alligator in your swimming pool, and you weren't smart enough to expect it.
Yep, bad deal all around. Just finished reading it.
At the same time the guy had a cabin in the area and had no protection, not smart IMO.
One big reason why I’ve never gone camping and never will.
Yep, I like staying on top of the food chain.
Important information.
I hope the decedent’s last words were NOT “ I love you bear!”
Of course that's true, but when there is a change in risk level and it's easy to post a notice it would be nice if they took the time to print one out and post it. In WA state the governor spent $10,000 of tax money to refinish a desk she uses to sign more taxes into laws. The cost of a page of paper and the printer ink wouldn't have been too much to hope for.
Did you ever suspect that Mr. Ranger and Officer Dibble were the same person? Notice you never saw them together. Dittos for Mr. Peebles from Magilla Gorilla and Mr. Spacely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8
It’s not just the bears you have to watch out for. Sometimes the natives are looking for love from the visitors...
Well, the bears used to be banned. I mean, they are grizzlies. Killed off in populated places for ‘bad behavior.’ But now they are protected. //rolling eyes//
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Chris Servheen, grizzly bear coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
said he was unaware of what other public notifications, if any,
were routinely made about bear capture efforts.
“
Hey, if a naive, foolish civilian wonders into our research area and
gets munched...more research for us Federal workers on bear behaviour!!!
(I’d add /SARC, but this episode sounds consistent with the attitude
of some Federal workers I know.)
well we obviously need about 500,000 new government employees to be hired to go around slapping warning labels on all these dangerous bears now.
I read a funny article a few years ago, written by a reporter from a large liberal newspaper who went up to Alaska to write an piece about what it was like to live up there.
One day, he was walking down a wide trail between some high ground cover, and two 9 year old kids came walking the other way. He chatted with them for a bit, and while he was talking, he noticed the kids were dressed in somewhat threadbare clothing. Not poverty, but not $250 sneakers, either. He thought about what it must be like for them to grow up there.
They didn’t look like they had a pot to piss in, and from what he could see, the entertainment opportunities were pretty scarce. While they talked the kids had tin cans with rocks in them which they threw at each other, kicked back and forth and basically tossed around.
He thought “Boy, what a difference. Down in New York, kids this age would be immersed in video games, the Internet, etc, but all these kids can do around here for entertainment is throw around cans filled with rocks. This was how they had to have fun, getting along with nothing.”
When he mentioned this to the kids, one of them looked at him like he was an idiot, and said “What are you talking about? These are our ‘bear cans’ that we use to let the bears know we are around. If my dad knew I went out without it, I’d get the belt for sure.” The other kid asked in astonishment “Don’t you have one? Where’s yours?”
When the guy said he didn’t have one, and asked if he could borrow one of theirs, they looked at him like he was crazy and said “No way!”
Sorry about the diverson there with the story. This is sad for this family...another case of the government do-gooders that don’t care about humans as long as Gaia is being taken care of.
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