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Famed Katmai Brown Bears Ready For Season 2


...Last year, in October, long after rangers packed up and left the park for the winter, viewers noticed a bear protecting a kill site. When the cameras came online the next day (they're shut off to conserve solar power), there was a different bear — nicknamed Lurch — on top of the cache, which had more than doubled in size.

Rangers speculated on what was in the cache. The contents were confirmed one day as Lurch was tearing the cache apart to snack on a smaller bear.

"We now know that Lurch killed another bear. For some of the people, that was traumatic," he said.

The comment board on the web site lit up: "Lurch is a killer!" "He's psychotic!" "When is the park service going to kill him so he doesn't kill again?"

Wood said he logged into the comment board and explained this was natural behavior and to a bear, it's all about calories, getting fat before winter.

By the end of the week, the comments had almost completely changed, and were noting admiration for Lurch's strength, his survival instincts, and power, universal concepts that park service personnel also use when talking about bears...
 
Alaska State Troopers reported Monday that a dead cow moose had been discovered in an area locally known as "moose pond" about four miles from the Nature Center at the end of Eagle River Road in the suburb north of Anchorage, shot more than once with .22-caliber rimfire ammunition. According to troopers, one of the shots pierced the moose's lungs and caused it to die. The perpetrator could face charges of illegally taking a moose during a closed season with improper ammunition, and wanton waste of meat. The moose was estimated to have been killed between 11:45 p.m. Saturday and 6:00 a.m. Sunday.

They could have at least used a 30.06 rifle.
 
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