Posted on 07/24/2024 4:10:39 AM PDT by marktwain
Relocation works when done properly and yes folks should be able to protect themselves. I carry around my yard with access to larger arms as needed. Mainly for hogs but we have bear around weekly but usually take off when they see us.
I don’t think bears are aware people are protecting themselves with guns or other such as spray. Grizzlies are grizzlies and will do what they do, which is basically to kill anything that moves.
We are lucky here in the USA as those living in a griz saturated area are allowed to arm themselves with very lethal weapons.
When people routinely protect themselves and their property, bears quickly learn to avoid people or they die.
That is what happened in the West. By 1900, grizzly bears ran from humans as fast as they could. Those that did not died.
Once we started overprotecting bears, some started learning humans are good sources of food, and that humans are not dangerous. The sows with this behavior transmit it/teach it to their cubs.
We have started producing generations of problem bears.
Instead of super-protecting sows with cubs who are aggressive toward humans, the sows and cubs should be culled from the population. It is what humans normally did for generations, and it was very successful.
That reminds me of that time my mother-in-law was attacked by a bear, and I called 911 for directions on what to do.
The cries and shrieks from my mother-in-law while I was trying to listen to the instructions the authorities were giving me were so annoying!
Regards,
They also become shape-shifters / gain the ability to change their species.
Regards,
“which is basically to kill anything that moves.”
Except Wolverines. :)
A better (longer and good close-ups) YouTube video with a very good skier and an amazingly cute bear - as long as he keeps his distance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tySWLqrYRo
Florida found this out the hard way.
They relocated nuisance bears up to 500 miles away and they still came back.
Now they just euthanize them...................
Knowing a couple government trappers they joke about moving problem bears. From one location to a location in the other trappers area.
Job security.
Problem bears do not stop their bad behavior just because they are moved.
Can a bear be a boar? Maybe not, but a bore can be a bear.
I have spent many nights on the Yukon River in recent years. All nights were by myself and far from any other people or settlements, roads or highways. In 7 trips down most of the Yukon (it’s 2,200 miles long), I have seen 3 bears and they were, I estimate, about 1/4 mile away.
I take great precautions at night including not sleeping where I cook a meal, electronic alarm trip wires, a .500 S & W pistol, a 12 gauge Remington loaded with Triple ought and I camp on islands in the Yukon where there is no brush for at least 300’. At “night”, it doesn’t get dark so you can see them. But, you have to sleep. So, I slept with the 50 Cal S&W in a holster on my chest.
I suspect the underlying motive for reintroducing these animals back into the wild, just as with releasing dangerous criminals back onto street, is to terrify the ordinary decent folks to try to keep them at home, as much as possible, too afraid to venture out.
Great article. Thanks.
I go to Glacier every few years. I’ve been 7 or 8 times.
I ALWAYS see griz when hiking. Worst was coming around a short corner on a hiking trail with a buddy, and seeing mama griz and cub at 25 yards. Holy Shiite! Luckily, everybody ran in different directions.
“I suspect the underlying motive for reintroducing these animals back into the wild, just as with releasing dangerous criminals back onto street, is to terrify the ordinary decent folks to try to keep them at home, as much as possible, too afraid to venture out.”
That may be part of it, but I wouldn’t discount the number of indoor dwellers who get their “truth” about nature from old Disney movies. They really think it’s a Bambi world outside their urban apartment buildings.
Arizona Game and Fish Department will try and relocate bears and mountain lions only once, at most. If they return, it is certain AGFD will kill them.
Last year a group of mountain lions roamed a Prescott neighborhood for a couple of weeks and they dispatched all of them. None had been caught before.
A juvenile bear entered our Prescott Valley neighborhood in May, was caught, then escaped. They dispatched the juvenile.
Man created problem. Man will resolve problem after feeding it for a long while, literally.
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