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- stillasleep00, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29And the #1 threat on our countdown tonight... BEARS!!!
- riverrunner, on 10/10/2007, -11/+32our stupid neighbors can't get up at 7 so they put the trash out the night before and then bears got it and are getting tagged and/or killed. they and other careless humans are directly to blame for the bear deaths.
- raven79, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27i agree humans have moved in on the bears land and then the people complain and have them killed, stupid people are a danger to the bears, and u can't fix stupid. they need to fine these people thousands of dollars thats the only thing they seem to understand, when it comes to money they might do something. the bears are not to blame.
- dankosaur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18This title is grammatically ambiguous.
- AllenS, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Well maybe you could take the first step and kill your irresponsible neighbors. I won't tell...
- reeder, on 10/10/2007, -6/+20Anyone in Colorado ever heard of a tranquilizer gun? I know someone there has seen Old School.
- Segment, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15"The problem isn't with the bears, it's with the people."
This is so true. If I had a nickel and a gun for every time I've seen some douchebag come back from fishing with a stringer of 10 walleye or bass and just leave them there on the dock to rot after showing his trophy wife and kids, then I'd be rich and there'd be a ton less douchebags in this world.
People just don't get it! Don't leave food out around cottages and/or where other people sleep and live. If you go camping, double bag your garbage and keep it in your cottage. If you're camping, triple bag the garbage and hang it high in a tree far away from your site. If you gut fish, take the entrails out to the middle of the lake and dump them there.
I do understand that the article says that their food was decimated by the weather, but with a bit of common human sense, we wouldn't have to put 35 bears down.
PS - Don't kill fish if you aren't going to eat them. Catch and release.. but that's an entirely different rant ;)
s. - renegadeafk, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Bears are the biggest threat to our nation, they are godless killing machines.
- jmeskimen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10People are almost always to blame for leaving food in the open where bears can get at it. But sadly, the bears must be killed once they do eat human food and have human contact. It ruins them and they will learn that it is much easier to go after humans for food than to hunt on their own terms. Fines for leaving food in an improper method are steep (in Montana at least), but not steep enough. Until people genuinely understand what their laziness causes, they will continue to be lazy. Larger fines would easily solve this problem.
- ochants76, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Steven Colbert is happy to hear this I am sure.
- krasherspk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm just going to hope this was a joke. Or all my fears of modern thought have come to fruition.
- Beaver6813, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_cycle - alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9What you claim was "YOUR" campsite for the weekend, was the bear's home for life.
- alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Wow, we invade their territory, trash it, and then kill the bears for invading the territory we invaded to begin with.
I've read stuff like this in History books, seems like it's just (in)human nature.
PS: If you turn my post into a political topic, I'll hunt you down through Digg and digg down all your posts :P - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I sort of agree with CosmicJustice, people from the city really have no idea what living with wildlife is like, so they need to shut the ***** up.
- SilasTomorrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow. Why would you make a man v. nature story into a barbed political discussion? Relax, mchinsky.
- cassholio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That'll teach the evil bears to stay away from our pik-i-nik baskets!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I agree, all of this killing of the relatively harmless black bear (they get a bad rap that they don't deserve) is sickening. Even though the city yuppies from Toronto pretty much canceled the bear hunt, they really have no idea about the black bear and how they need to be culled to keep a healthy population. Now, instead of a spring hunt which keeps populations under control where the meat is put to good use, bears are being shot and the meat is wasted.
I have 6-7 bears and cubs rummaging around my yard every night, and dragging my garbage a mile into the woods. It's great. - hdar3415, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Read the article.
- unearth, on 10/10/2007, -7/+10dugg down for being an idiot and using the term "city boy"
- liutang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Read the article
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I know, right? I picture him spitting into a nice big brass spittoon and adjusting his gun belt while he typed that. Spit-TING!
- xike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Read the article
- DOUBLEZER00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Did it hurt you? Obviously not so what does it matter?
- Burn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Read the article.
- Dustmuffins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Read the article... lol
- APHughes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They should've stay out of our picnic baskets
- drevin, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6"The problem is not with the bears -- they're just opportunistic feeders -- but with the way humans behave," Baskfield said, adding that unsealed garbage containers, bird feeders, pet food left outside and even the smell from a barbecue grill will attract bears.
Once the bears lose their fear of humans and associate people with food, the animals must be destroyed, Baskfield said.
So,people should get rid of their pets and stop cooking outside.Also:
Once a bear has been caught feeding near humans, the animal is tranquilized, tagged and returned to the backcountry. If a tagged bear is caught again, it is killed.
Hmm,seems they do have tranquilizzers. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hey quaxon, don't get me wrong, I'm a vegetarian and have more compassion for nature and wildlife than anybody I know.
But the thing is, these bears start coming into cities, and endangering the life of civilians. The odds are they aren't going to attack, but when a black bear is cornered, or you happen to come between the mother and a cub, there's a good chance you're going to die. I'm not sayign shoot them all, but a annual cull isnecessary to maintain a healthy population of wild bears. The truth is, the problem is caused by careless homeowners who leave open garbage, barbeques and the like open to attract them in the first place. It's a shame the bears have to suffer for it. - matador3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Uh oh
- zad1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So hungry colorado bears were killed by the dozens of officers who were looking for food?
Officers: Hmm.. Tasty Bear.. Let's shoot them for food!
(Fix the grammar. It looks so confusing) - alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I do have a problem with humans taking land from animals. The only thing is... I know, that makes me a hypocrite (I don't live in the wilderness). So your statement, is probably the next most acceptable thing. Thanks for your comment.
- cassholio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yogi bear anyone?
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6I think that sounds like a plan
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Heh, I for one thought the last line was funny.
I don't have a problem with people taking land from animals, but to a reasonable extent. We need to coexist as much as possible, and always leave enough land for some to live in. - ninefournine949, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1its doesn't belong any more to the bear than it does to me.
- yuutomo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3so, we ***** up the enviorment, and now we're going to punish those that we're driving to extinction. I say humanity as a whole deserves the lifetime darwin award for being so stupid to not only screw up the enviorment, but to try to wipe out everything on the planet to boot.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What the hell does that matter? I don't see them when I walk out my door, but they are living up in the mountains where I live and they do come down now and then.
Just because someone doesn't see them on a regular basis doesn't mean *****. And if you do, and if you're actually bitching about it (it's starting to seem like you are), then move. Otherwise, YOU STFU and move to some major city where there's no hope whatsoever for any animal other than squirrels, rodents, and pigeons. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Did the article say that the human populations in Colorado ***** up the food supply for the black bears? There are good years and bad years in nature.
FROM THE ARTICLE (novel idea, I know), "A number of factors have contributed to the problem of the nuisance bears forays into populated areas, Baskfield said. A late spring freeze killed off the mountain wild berry crop that the omnivorous animals normally rely on.
In addition, a hot and arid July dried out other high-country vegetation, forcing the bears to look for other food sources at lower elevations."
So there you have it. The environment didn't play nice and the bears are hungry. ***** happens. Next year there may be too much food and the bear population will explode, leading to thousands dying the next year when food is scarce again. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In rural Pennsylvania, you guys still put trash out to some curb/street?
In BFE, southern Illinois, people *burn* trash. Now that's good for the planet. ;) - jmeskimen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you've ever actually been to the mountains, or a campground where bears exist, you will actually see trash cans that bears cannot get into. They resemble the big blue mailboxes that you can put mail into, but once it's in, it's gone.
- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1I live in downtown Denver, and I can assure you we have bars and restaurants that bears frequent all the time.
- tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think if you would've tried to exemplify that idea to the bear that night, the bear would've greatly disagreed.
- asskicker32, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1let the bears pay the bear tax, I pay the homer tax.
Dad, thats the homeowner tax
well Im still outraged. - alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2For letting humans take over their territory?
- Rahodeb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or bear proof trash cans
- negativenancy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Reminds me of an old Simpsons episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9lbgF8oRk8
- azurechaos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ah, it's so nice to get another fresh breath of negativity and inaction. Logic: because things are already bad, we should do nothing to make them better.
- alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1... wow ... I know I shouldn't be wasting time trying to get this through your head, but since you're just arguing for the sake of arguing...
Ownership is just a human concept. The bear doesn't own the land he roams, he makes it its home, and he shares it with thousands other critters, and if food is a plenty, he'll even share it with other bears...
Wow, 949... please read your post again, and try to make any sense of it yourself. - thesquire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Ignorant Wanna-Be Environmentalists: The park rangers kill these bears because they have to, to preserve the environment, not because they're anti-nature nazis.
Here is what would happen if they didn't kill the bears that repeatedly invaded human space. First, the bears would keep coming back. Second, with bears in areas with a high contact probability to humans, they would eventually have some kind of incident where a person, most likely a child, gets hurt or killed in a bear attack. Third, parents and people would become very scared of the bears. 4A- People would stop coming to the area, cutting off the funding that is keeping that area reserved for wildlife in the first place. 4B- People would demand "something" being done about the bears, the end result being a lot more bears being killed. The only alternative to killing a bear is to lock it up in a cage - way to "preserve" a wild animal.
What really needs to happen is people need to smarten up and not entice the bears to where they shouldn't be by leaving out trash and/or food. Unfortunately, that's not very likely to happen any time soon. -
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