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zipman said:
I wish I would have known that at the time.

And in case you didn't know, I've been called irritating before. :D
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Not by a bear, I trust.
sufisaint said:
I just dropped off my daughter at college...almost every college girl is cute...I felt like a dirty old man...thank goodness for dark sunglasses..
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I know! Me too! Every time I drive through Hanover all the Dartmouth kids make me drool.
sufisaint said:
Unless mother bear has young cubs...
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Indeed, or it's a young male who's experimenting with diet. Even then, Mom doesn't usually kill, she just swats and yells.
 
Laurel said:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/19/1371654999562/Toby-Burke-008.jpg
Toby Burke: 'I struck the bear as hard as I could, five or six times, aiming for the eyes and nose.'

I work for the US Fish & Wildlife Service and always carry a gun or pepper spray in bear country, but I'd never seen so much as a paw print on that beach. There are established rules for bear encounters and my family are well drilled. Bears rarely attack people unless provoked and I was confident we'd see this one off by letting it know we were human. "Hey, bear," I shouted. "Get out of here!" We bunched together to make ourselves look more imposing and clapped and yelled, expecting her to back off. She bounded towards us.

"Get behind me," I said. "Stay with me and don't run, no matter what." An aggressive bear will usually make a "bluff charge" to frighten away an adversary, growling and roaring, but pulling up short at the last minute. This one was silent, ears pinned back – the sign of an animal that's going in for the kill.

Gripping my telescope tripod in both hands, I held it in front of me to form a barrier as the bear cannoned into me. Her huge head was level with my chest and shoulders, and the tripod lodged crossways in her mouth. She bit down and I found myself supporting her weight. I'm a big man, 6ft 3in and 280lb, but the bear was at least half as heavy again. I knew I wouldn't be able to hold her for long.​
- read the full article Experience: I punched a bear (from The Guardian)​
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Because your post should be cross-posted in this thread.


 
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Fabala said:
They're considered "threatened" in the US. Endangered in Canada.

But in Russia, there is a very stable population.



So yeah, this:



And also, don't go hiking in Russia when it's not hibernation season.
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Grizzly bears in Canada come in two different groups, almost different species. Only in alberta where the Eastern slopes of the Rockies is the debate even open as to whether they are threatened or not. The population has always been very small and a very small hunt was allowed in Alberta which was cancelled in recent years. The vast majority of Alberta Grizzlies live in the network of National Parks in the Rockies, Banff, Jasper etc. The move to cancel the hunt was more based on politics than reality.

In BC, the Grizzly population is extremely healthy and not endangered in any way shape or form.
 


Hiker Killed by Grizzly in Yellowstone National Park


Preliminary results of the investigation into the recent death of a hiker in Yellowstone National Park show that the man was attacked by a grizzly bear. While the exact cause of death has not been determined, investigators have identified what appear to be defensive wounds on the victim’s forearms. The victim’s body was found partially consumed and cached, or covered, in the vicinity of the Elephant Back Loop Trail near Lake Village on Friday afternoon. Based on partial tracks found at the scene, it appears that an adult female grizzly and at least one cub-of-the-year were present and likely involved in the incident.

The name of the individual is being withheld pending family notification. The Montana man was a long-term seasonal employee of Medcor, the company that operates three urgent care clinics in the park. He had worked and lived in Yellowstone for five seasons and was an experienced hiker. He was reported missing on Friday morning when he did not report for work. A park ranger found his body in a popular off-trail area he was known to frequent, approximately .5 miles from the Elephant Back Loop Trail. Additional park rangers and wildlife biologists responded to the scene and gathered evidence for bear DNA recovery. The investigation will continue, although heavy rains in the area Friday evening and Saturday morning have made additional evidence recovery difficult. A forensic autopsy is currently scheduled for Monday.

Wildlife biologists set bear traps in the area on Friday evening. If bears are trapped and identified as having been involved in the attack, they will be euthanized. “We may not be able to conclusively determine the circumstances of this bear attack, but we will not risk public safety,” said Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk. “We are deeply saddened by this tragedy and our hearts go out to the family and friends of the victim as they work to cope with the loss of someone who loved Yellowstone so very much.”

The Elephant Back Loop Trail and immediate area is closed until further notice. Signs are posted and maps of the closure area are available at park visitor centers.

All of Yellowstone National Park is considered bear country. Hikers are advised to stay on designated trails, travel in groups of three or more people, carry bear spray, be alert for bears, and make noise to help avoid surprise encounters.



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Weird. Watched a film about this exact thing the other night called Blackfoot Trail. He got eaten too.
 




Yellowstone Park Official Euthanize Bear That Killed Hiker


HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials euthanized a grizzly bear Thursday after DNA tests confirmed it attacked and killed a hiker last week, a park spokeswoman said.

The adult female bear was killed because it had eaten part of the Montana man's body and hid the rest, which is not normal behavior for a female bear defending its young, spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said.

"If a bear consumes an individual, it's not allowed to remain in the population," she said. "It's not a risk we're willing to take."

The bear's two cubs also fed on the body, park officials determined, but arrangements were being made to transfer them to a zoo, Bartlett said. If no zoo had been willing to take them, the cubs likely would have been killed, too.

"Cubs can adapt to a facility much easier, and there is no danger of them learning humans are food," she said.

An autopsy confirmed 63-year-old Lance Crosby of Billings died of a bear attack. He worked as a nurse in the park's medical clinics and was hiking alone and without bear spray in the park's Lake Village area.

His body was found by park rangers Friday about a half-mile from the nearest trail. It was hidden by dirt and pine needles and had wounds that indicated Crosby tried to fight back.

Park officials captured the adult bear that night and its two cubs later. DNA tests confirmed bear hair samples collected next to Crosby's body belonged to the 259-pound grizzly and teeth wounds found on Crosby's body also matched the bear, which was at least 15 years old, Bartlett said.

No other bears had been spotted in the area at the time of the attack besides the grizzly and the two cubs.

Park officials received the DNA test results Thursday, and the bear was quickly euthanized. Officials heavily sedated the bear before firing a captive bolt into its skull, Bartlett said.

Yellowstone officials had previously said they would euthanize the bear if the tests confirmed it was the attacker. That prompted a backlash by people who objected to killing the grizzly when the hiker hadn't take precautions to avoid an attack by carrying bear spray or hiking with another person.

Hundreds of calls and emails over the bear's fate have poured into park offices over the past week, Bartlett estimated.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's office received more than a dozen calls and emails from people seeking the governor's intervention to spare the bear, Bullock spokesman Mike Wessler said, even though the state had nothing to do with the National Park Service's decision.

Arrangements were being finalized to move the cubs to a facility accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, park officials said. Bartlett declined to say where they were going, but said the facility was expected to make an announcement Friday.

The area surrounding the site where Crosby was attacked has been closed to hikers as a precaution. The closures were to be lifted Thursday.

Crosby is the sixth person killed by grizzlies since 2010 in and around Yellowstone. There are an estimated 750 bears in the park and nearby areas of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

Bears involved in fatal attacks are not always killed, particularly when the attack is considered a defensive one in which the animal was protecting its young.

"Had this bear just had a defensive attack, we would probably be looking at a different outcome," Bartlett said.




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Jesus, this is JUST the thread I needed to see before I take my two young boys on their first camping trip.

I'm not going to sleep a wink.

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Riles said:
Jesus, this is JUST the thread I needed to see before I take my two young boys on their first camping trip.

I'm not going to sleep a wink.

:rolleyes:
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Do you have a big-ass can of pepper spray?

And leave some bacon strips under your neighbor's tent ground cloth. They will be your alarm.
 
thør said:
Do you have a big-ass can of pepper spray?

And leave some bacon strips under your neighbor's tent ground cloth. They will be your alarm.
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I have spray and an air horn. But my genius sibling booked a remote site, so I may be short on neighbors.

I have a feeling the wee ones will make us sleep in the trucks anyhow. :D
 
thør said:
Do you have a big-ass can of pepper spray?

And leave some bacon strips under your neighbor's tent ground cloth. They will be your alarm.
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That is positively fucking EVIL, you goddamned sonofabitch.

You are a SICK bastard!!!




ROTFL
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Riles said:
I have spray and an air horn. But my genius sibling booked a remote site, so I may be short on neighbors.

I have a feeling the wee ones will make us sleep in the trucks anyhow. :D
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We always slept out with the kids, even when bears were known to be in the aera, because we policed our food, etc and did all the right things. Then Fucking Mr Ranger comes and shakes the tent around 11pm and asks if we have food inside. I told him that we weren't a bunch of morons and to leave us alone. Mrs t however, was shaken up and didn't sleep a wink. She got to sleep in the sun in the canoe the next day.
 
thør said:
We always slept out with the kids, even when bears were known to be in the aera, because we policed our food, etc and did all the right things. Then Fucking Mr Ranger comes and shakes the tent around 11pm and asks if we have food inside. I told him that we weren't a bunch of morons and to leave us alone. Mrs t however, was shaken up and didn't sleep a wink. She got to sleep in the sun in the canoe the next day.
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"We're from the government, and we're here to help."

Ishmael
 
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