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By Don on 08-24-09 @ 7:41 am
I know it must have been a hard decision, but how many times do you deal with a problem bear before you have to get rid of it. I support the parks decision to deal with this bear before someone was killed by it.
By hotfishmt on 08-24-09 @ 8:55 am
SO…....what happened to the program to transplant Grizzlies into the Cabinet Mountains area??? Are the Park so called bear experts prohibited from taking the bears and driving to the Libby area….....NOT TOO HARD…..AND ALL 3 WOULD BE TOGETHER…..for berry picking season. They can bring Wolves from Canada….....surely…....a Grizzly from Glacier Park could make the move to the Cabinet Wilderness area…....no biggie…......but THAT IS TO PRACTICAL…..send them to a ZOO…......whoppie.
By coldsteel on 08-25-09 @ 12:04 am
How so much action can be generated from anger over the shooting of a couple bears (considering we live in a country whose leaders, have sent/are sending hundreds of thousands of young men to die to profit firms like Boeing, Bechtel, Lockheed, GE etc etc) does puzzle me? Consider our leaders have staged terrorist attacks… approve torture of prisoners and according to witch Hilary Clinton, responds to the whims of the members of the Council on Foreign Relations instead of the interests of the People? All the folks calling to complain/showing up at government offices/writing letters/planting IED’s/thousand’s expressing R A G E on behalf of the beasts..where is thy rage over the murder of your neighbors son’s, daughter’s and others? Thousands of hours on mountains and any bear I’ve EVER had cross my path was a trigger pull away from death, had it or they not run off. If the rangers are to be believed, this sow sought out people walking the trails and entered tents at night. Standard policy in Sequoia/Yosemite/Yellowstone/Glacier- once a bear gets “hooked” on jonesing humans, it’s DONE. All have a responsibility to watch out for each other and if one of us see’s someone about to open a bag of marshmallows to feed cute Yogi..tell them “NO! BAD HUMAN..BAD”.. How about the family that leaves an entire spread unattended..hot dogs, burgers, tubs of cool whip..candy bars..comes back and the tent, everything is ripped to shreds. Instead of using the bear lockers..they leave food in the car and are surprised when the car doors are pealed off the chassis. bla bla bla bla..FORGET IT MAN..talking to some of you and the type of people that car camp is like getting a stubborn mule to get on a trailer. Only thing that works is an acetylene torch. Don’t feed the damn bears people..it isn’t cute!
By Fair Row on 08-25-09 @ 7:13 am
GNP needs to be questioned on many of its senseless policies. But , then, doing so would be like screaming into the wind to stop it from blowing. They do as they please and care less about public opinion. Just another federal entity unanswerable to anyone except those who feed it with an annual pot o’ gold called a budget. Got a laugh out of Hunt, the bear dog boss, agreeing with GNP’s decision to kill the bear. You don’t get your contract renewed disagreeing the contractor. The whole issue is nothing more than a bureaucratic boondoggle resulting in the unnecessary loss of three bears.
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