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Bear Aware: How to Safely Handle a Bear Encounter in the Great Outdoors

Talyn

Talyn

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With fall hunting here for some, and fall also starts the hyperphagia season for bears. Here's some reminders for those that live, or plan to come west to hunt in griz country, where bears are.

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Bear Aware: How to Safely Handle a Bear Encounter in the Great Outdoors

When we are in the Great Outdoors it is important to be mindful of other animals around us and navigating a bear encounter is a tremendous skill to have.
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5 Stages of Activity and Hibernation - North American Bear Center

The annual cycle of black bear activity and hibernation has five stages: 1. hibernation 2. walking hibernation 3. normal activity 4. hyperphagia 5. fall transition Bear in den The stages...
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Hyper What? - BearSmart.com

With snow dusting the mountain tops and temperatures dipping down to the single digits, the chill in the air is signifying winter is just around the corner...
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Fall is power-eating time for bears - BearWise

In fall, bears are searching for the 20,000 calories they must eat each day to fatten up before winter. BearWise tips help prevent problems.
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Gun shots are a dinner bell for griz who have figured out a harvested deer and/or elk is basically a free meal and will seek the hunter kills out.
 
I'm more worried about Bear encounters in The Great Indoors.


There was a lady on the west side of Colorado Springs that was feeding bears in her backyard and she left her slider open so they could come and go in the kitchen as they pleased.

I'm not sure how long it went on but a meter reader went in her backyard to read the meter and caught her doing it.

I think they fined her $800. I also think they called her doing it more than once.
 
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I'm more worried about Bear encounters in The Great Indoors.


There was a lady on the west side of Colorado Springs that was feeding bears in her backyard and she left her slider open so they could come and go in the kitchen as they pleased.

I'm not sure how long it went on but a meter reader went in her backyard to read the meter and caught her doing it.

I think they fined her $800. I also think they called her doing it more than once.
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She's still doing it, I follow her on tictac. https://www.tiktok.com/@susankehoe1?_t=8fURZPUHD23&_r=1
 
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Grizzly bear blamed for fatal Montana mauling and Idaho attack is killed after breaking into a house

Montana wildlife officials say a grizzly bear that fatally mauled a woman on a forest trail west of Yellowstone National Park this summer and attacked a man in Idaho in 2020 has been killed after it broke into a house near West Yellowstone.
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Grizzly bear that killed woman near Yellowstone euthanized after breaking into Montana house

A grizzly bear linked to the death of Amie Adamson, 47, was killed after breaking into a home in West Yellowstone, Montana, on Saturday, officials said.
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Note: More than 1,000 grizzlies roam the Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Roughly the same number live in northwestern Montana around Glacier National Park (it's a greater area than around Glacier NP according to this second report. Plus both populations are expanding in Montana & Wyoming, and to a lesser extent in Idaho).
 
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I have an loon neighbor that not only talks to the small wildlife but feeds them daily, mostly breads. Birds and squirrels enjoy the midday handout but after dusk all the scavenger nocturnals finish up the leftovers then migrate over to my yard for their berries, larvae, assorted proteins and if the mood strikes, take a their dumps.
 
I used to work at a FedEx Warehouse.
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My stupid supervisor fed the squirrels on the lot.
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She would bring bags and bags of peanuts every day. She fed them so much they buried pounds of peanuts all over the lot.

It got to the point that the squirrels were getting in the company car to beg for peanuts.

Then one of my stupid coworkers got bit by one of the squirrels and tried to file a Worker's Comp claim. The Office raised hell over that.
 
Squirrels are cool. Their flea bitten presence really contributes to the raptor proliferation here.

As a city dweller, and even in my road travels TN,SC,NC, GA, I’ve ever seen a bear outside of the zoo. Took a picture atop of one circa 1960, I recall it was a stuffed black bear at Chicago’s Lincoln Park‘s midway, the vendor would take a Polaroid slip it into a keepsake folder, probably cost 10¢.

I need a bear to get rid of the neighbors. The crime, high taxes and voting record hasn’t been successful in nudging them out. Oh wait, maybe it’s me that has to leave !
 
These were both within an hour of my house in the last few days. As Yellowstone/Grand Teton have exceeded carrying capacity for grizz, the young are getting pushed out into surrounding mountain ranges and foothills.

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Idaho reports three grizzlies dead in two days after human conflicts

IDAHO — Three grizzly bears in Idaho were dispatched by humans between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, according to Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG). Two 1.5-year-old grizzlies were trapped and euthanized by IDFG on Aug. 31 east of Ashton after “months of conflicts with humans,” the agency said. The pair, a male...
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What is particularly frustrating is that the NPS identified a 'target number' of grizz it wanted to achieve as a result of it's "Grizzly Recovery Program" after numbers had dropped considerably in the parks a few decades ago. But every time there is any talk of acknowledging that those targets have been reached (or exceeded), it gets shot down by environmental groups, who seem to want to see grizzly everywhere, not just in the parks but in all the surrounding communities as well. Predictably, encounters like this are rapidly increasing over the last decade, and it seems like we have at least one fatality every year, often during hunting season.
 
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Hammer67 said:
These were both within an hour of my house in the last few days. As Yellowstone/Grand Teton have exceeded carrying capacity for grizz, the young are getting pushed out into surrounding mountain ranges and foothills.

buckrail.com

Idaho reports three grizzlies dead in two days after human conflicts

IDAHO — Three grizzly bears in Idaho were dispatched by humans between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, according to Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG). Two 1.5-year-old grizzlies were trapped and euthanized by IDFG on Aug. 31 east of Ashton after “months of conflicts with humans,” the agency said. The pair, a male...
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What is particularly frustrating is that the NPS identified a target number of grizz it wanted to achieve as a result of it's "Grizzly Recovery Program" after numbers had dropped considerably in the parks a few decades ago. But every time there is any talk of acknowledging that those targets have been reached (or exceeded), it gets shot down by environmental groups, who seem to want to see grizzly everywhere, not just in the parks but in all the surrounding communities as well. Predictably, encounters like this are rapidly increasing over the last decade, and it seems like we have at least one fatality every year, often during hunting season.
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Not the NPS but the USFWS manages the recovery of listed species under the Endangered Species Act.

As a population increases there's always those individuals that disperse looking for unoccupied habitat and that includes adults.

We've had adults come down from the Glacier NP/Bob Marshall Wilderness area (the heart of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Recovery Area) and also west from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem recovery areas into Wes-central MT right up to the ID/MT state line.
 
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Not the NPS but the USFWS manages the recovery of listed species under the Endangered Species Act.
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USFWS plays a big role for sure, since they oversee all listed Endangered Species, but it's the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (comprised of federal, state, and tribal members, along with the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee) that collectively have input on the program. LINK and another LINK

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As a population increases there's always those individuals that disperse looking for unoccupied habitat and that includes adults.
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All of which was an easily predictable effect of letting the population continue to grow beyond identified targets. Grizz, and especially mature male grizz, have a large home range, and don't tolerate competition within it. As target numbers within the parks were reached a while ago, every additional young grizz that isn't replacing one who died, is being pushed out of the park. Neighboring mtn ranges like the Centennials, Winds, Palisades, Absorokas, etc. have significantly growing populations.

Personally, I think grizz are awesome and worthy of protecting in appropriate places, but they simply aren't compatible everywhere, and we are only seeing more and more problems. And yeah, I do have a problem with someone in San Francisco telling me that "I just need to learn how to live with grizz" in my backyard.

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We've had adults come down from the Glacier NP/Bob Marshall Wilderness area (the heart of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Recovery Area) and also west from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem recovery areas into Wes-central MT right up to the ID/MT state line.
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We've had them kill pigs on the farm behind our house.
 
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