all about bears...........
this past month we have had to shoot three black bears in a two day period in a camp we set up in the northwest territories - 180 people - because people kept taking food from the cook shack and bringing it back to their tents........................STUPID FCKNG PEOPLE...
in the past 25 years i have come across perhaps 300 or 400 bears, and each story is different.........THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A PROBLEM WITH THE BEAR,BLACK, GRIZZLY, POLAR,,,,,,WHITE KOMODI.............
It has always been the human at fault........we are in their territory for a short time, then leave, the bear stays there forever.......
black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears...........are wild creatures.....THEY DO NOT BENEFIT IF PEOPLE STOP TO LOOK AT THEM OR ATTEMPT TO FEED THEM........
THEY ARE AFTER THE SAME FOOD SOURCES WE ARE AFTER....ie berries, and fish from the streams................
i have shot my weapons a number of times regarding bears....7 times to kill bears in a camp situation,........
...and THREE TIMES TO KEEP STUPID FCKNG HUMANS - german tourists, and canadian citizens - AWAY FROM THE BEARS, OR TO MAKE THEM AWARE THAT BEARS ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND.........
when we shot the bears this past month, the camp felt sooooo down.......
but on the way to work in the morning, by the side of the muskeg logging road, a mother bear was standing straight up, just inside the trees, while at her head level, attached to the tree next to her, were her two small cubs,,hanging on next to her, all three of them, looking at us driving by in $75,000 vehicles, equipped to the fcknhg nuts............BEARS ARE CURIOUS, and they are hungry, and they are WILD,...........and, if they are still wild, THEY WILL RUN AWAY IF YOU ASK THEM TO, because they don't want to be bothered with you, getting killed..............
please, maggie and others who read this.....don't be afraid of bears, just treat them as the wild animals they are..............YELL, SCREAM, SHOUT, MAKE NOISE...............we are not their friends.....................
i think that had the camp not seen the mother and cubs in the trees by the road on the way to work in the morning, there would have been a continuing of the depression that had crept into the camp the night before, when the camp bears had to be shot, because people were trying to be friendly with the fckng bears....................
i usually don't get too excited, but i do like bears..............this has been my bear harangue, and if you guys in the east have ever a political say on the bear vs human thing,,,,please,,,,go with the bears...............
thanks........peter