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By hotfishmt on 09-22-12 @ 9:32 am
If any home owners can’t spent the time or effort, I will come pick up the fallen apples for only $4 per apple. The feed them to the deer that the bears are following or the many birds that eat the
pulp.
What culture shock from eating fallen Apples to up the barren North Fork, its about time for the
ground squirrles to head down for the winter & food becomes scarce, and far fewer Moose to
chase with Wolves to compete for what it left and calling Elk get you a lone Wolf. Whats a bear to
do….Alaska is more tolerant of Brown Bears in close to town than Montana.
What about taking some of the immense property that GPI is taking control of and adding some
stout fencing enclosure & having a Bear Park for tourists. Look at the bear center in West
Yellowstone & the attractions it gets and the “black bearz” up near West Glacier….all to see a
BEAR while on vacation in Montana….and GPI sure does not want humans on it turf…so what
about some of the “excess Griz” and have a new nature attraction. I’d go for sure.
By Mtwatch on 09-22-12 @ 10:43 am
Euthanized…such a politically correct term for slaughter: The 238-pound male grizzly that was euthanized had been getting into livestock feed, pet food, bird feeders, garbage and apples.
The second grizzly, a 271-pound male, was feeding on unsecured garbage and fallen apples,
according to Tim Manley, a grizzly bear management specialist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and
Parks.
So the FWP slaughters (oops) some bears and moves others. HUMANS invade in BEAR
country, leave their s___t layin around for critters or actually do it on purpose to “see the
animals” in the wild (hahaha) and then the WILD animals show up and get dead! Bears and
other wild critters LIVE HERE folks. If you cannot use common sense and are afraid of
them..leave! And FWP…MOVE THEM ALL…STOP SLAUGHTERING THE ANIMALS
BECAUSE OF STUPID HUMANS!!!
By Mtwatch on 09-22-12 @ 10:53 am
Oh yeah and what was the “courtesy” provided to these two grizzlies after they were captured…how did the cameraman get so close to these ferocious beasts..the mentality of the
MTFWP and USDA Fish & Wildlife is simply slaughter…look at the numbers on their sites…they
tell it all!
By mitch on 09-22-12 @ 7:55 pm
It’s high time these property owners are fined, heavily, for baiting these animals.
By hotfishmt on 09-23-12 @ 7:30 am
Mtwatch…..you must not live around the Valley ?? Your comments show how out of touch you are or do not keep up to speed. The pictures are a “photo op” taken by Fish & Game or a
photographer allowed & sitting in a truck.
Back in the 80’s a photo “op” went SOUR….up near Spotted Bear, when a national outdoor
writers convention was in Kalispell & the powers to be decided to let photo journalist take photo’s
of Fish & Game releasing a large Grizz from a culvert trap….with the IDIOT WARDER….standing
on top of the culvert trap….well Mr. Big Griz….exited the trap, turned around and ended up toppling
the trap & the man off the top to the ground….well, by the the photo op became a survival moment
for the warden….he took out his 41 mag revolver & stopped his leg from being eaten.
By Mtwatch on 09-23-12 @ 8:49 am
I should have figured such…no I wasn’t here when that happend but figures with these idiots. Ok I have a solution. You said make a bear park…I say fence the humans in! It would solve
all our problems!!!
By cs1 on 09-27-12 @ 1:36 pm
Public awareness, a goal worth investing in.
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