[Conservababe]

I hope more to follow...

[mystery-ak]

Heard this too.....no details yet..don't know if it was at a state park or zoo.

[nevergore]

Probably up in the Catskills....
I have family up there and they are always having problems with the bears...Find them on their deck in the morning...
NeverGore

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting note: Grizzlies are generally the most feared members of the bear family, and for good reason -- they are more likely to attack humans than any other bears. However, grizzly bear attacks are often "provoked" in a sense that they attack humans out of fear (e.g., if you surprise them on a mountain trail) or to protect their young. For some reason, the smaller black bear is more likely than a grizzly to attack a human being for no reason whatsoever.

[firebrand]

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[Talkwire]

Summer of the Bear!

[Frohickey]

Arm infants, and kill bears!!!

Do it for the chill-ren!!!!

[cake_crumb]

Idiots feed bears. People then die. This is such sad news...I pray for strength to her parents.

[Shermy]

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/StoryFolder/story_1364547158_html
Bear Kills Infant
5-Month-Old Killed By Bear At Summer Bungalow Colony

Aug 19, 2002 5:19 pm US/Eastern

(CBS)-(FALLSBURG, N.Y. )-A bear killed an infant Monday afternoon as it tried to drag the girl into the woods, officials said.

The baby, Ester Schwimmer of Brooklyn, was snatched out of her stroller by the bear at the bungalow colony, police said.

Isaac Abraham, a community leader from Williamsburg in Brooklyn, said witnesses told him the 5-month-old girl was pronounced dead at a Ellenville Hospital upon arrival.

Mike Fraser, a state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman, said the baby was in a stroller in front of the porch with members of her family. The bear grabbed the stroller and the child, Fraser said.

The child was knocked out of the stroller and the bear tried to drag the child into the woods, Fraser said.

Her father was able to get her away from the bear, which reportedly ran up a tree. A short time later, DEC officers and police shot the bear.

The black bear was being taken to the DEC's laboratories just outside of Albany, Fraser said.

Abraham said people at the colony desperately tried to save the girl. ``People started chasing the bear, throwing rocks at it,'' he said.

Ward Stone, the state's chief pathologist, said the bear would be examined.

``Obviously, we'll be pursuing a rabies test at the earliest time,'' Stone said.

It was the first time in 34 year that Stone could remember a black bear killing a human. Black bears are the only native species in New York.

Stone said one bear from the Catskills tested positive for rabies in the recent past, the only time he has found rabies in that species.

``In all my many years, 34 summers, we've had them eat birdseed, get into trouble eating dog food in people's yards but black bears are just not noted for attacking humans,'' Stone said

Fallsburg is about 70 miles northwest of New York City.

Black bear sightings in the northeast are increasing. New Jersey state environmental officials say the bears continue to migrate from crowded habitats in northern areas.

The bears apparently have found a new home in the Sourlands of central New Jersey. The area includes the 17-mile-long Sourland Mountain Preserve and the valleys around it that jut through seven towns in Hunterdon, Mercer and Somerset counties.

The Division of Fish and Wildlife says there's been a rise in bear sightings in the area following decades of no sightings.

[RonF]

I go into Quetico Provincial Park for a canoe trip every year. There are bears up there. If there's an unusually agressive bear, it's reported. But, there are some rules that everyone is supposed to follow:

1) If a bear shows up, don't approach him/her, but make a lot of noise and they generally leave.
2) Make noise on the trail so that they hear you coming (usually my groaning and puffing serves for that).
3) Maintain campsite sanitation; don't have food around, don't burn food in your campfire, clean up food residues and pots/pans quickly, don't keep your food pack in your campsite.
4) If Mr. Bear shows up during meal time, Mr. Bear is generally going to eat, and you're going to go hungry. It's worth trying #1, but don't physically interpose yourself between Mr. Bear and a food source.

They're generally not real big on bear spray, etc. Follow the rules, and if a bear visits your campsite, find a new campsite.

[Bon mots]

More people should carry bear repellent.

Just enough for a little blackie. Better pack something more substantial for a grizzlie.

[finnsheep]

We have been trying to get help from this situation for years. Have written to the state rep and state senators telling them this kind of thing can happen here. We have a very high bear density per square mile. We live in the Poconos, also about 70 miles from NYC. The drought is starving the bears. They only care about calories vs risk. We are nothing but calories to them. They need to consume 20,000 calories a day coming out of hibernation and going into it.

We have had bears try to get into our home while we were in it several times. We have had a bear come in our barn and kill a valuable milk goat. We have had bears come into our fields and kill our sheep. People all around us feed the bears. I mean hand feed, like handing them a sandwich, as well as just putting the food out on the ground to watch them.

[Willie Green]

I hope more to follow...

Clearly you mean more information and not children.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, my God!!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

I hope no one took a picture or got it on video. Too awful to imagine! God bless the family.

[DJ MacWoW]

Fallsburg isn't too far from me. A lot of jewish people go to camps there and they're mostly from NY city. You wouldn't believe the dumb things people do. I believe these folks fed the bear just like you would at the zoo. Either they ran out of food or the baby cried and the bear thought it was an animal. They feed and try to pet anything that's furry. Drownings are another problem. There will be "No Swimming or Diving" signs and they do anyway.

[stilts]

I just returned from visiting my folks in the Berkshires. They live near Tanglewood and in all the years they've been there we never saw a bear (30+ years). While we were there a big black bear decided to go through the trash just as my sister and her two children were walking past there. Apparently the enviro laws make it near impossible to get rid of a danger such as this without someone getting attacked first.

It changed my view instantly of the traditional after dinner walk.

Last year it was the beavers that are protected and were destroying acres upon acres of land. The owners had no recourse and were threatened with arrest if they harmed the beavers. Meanwhile, the owners just sit back and watch their land become worthless.

[Coleus]

A bear attack in Alaska

The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The monster was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, 12'6" high at the shoulder,14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).

Think about it. You would be level with the bears belly button when he stood, he would look you in the eye when walking! This bear on its hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look over the roof at eye level.

The bear had killed 2 other people. His last meal was the poor fellowon a nature hike. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber emptied. He shot6-times and hit the grizzly 4(they found seven 7mm slugs and four 38 caliber slugs in him) but obviously only wounded him since it was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death by the Forest Service man.

[Carry_Okie]

LEV 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.