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RE: [at-l] In season
- Subject: RE: [at-l] In season
- From: "Mayer, Jim" <JMayer@crt.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:37:53 -0400
I agree.... AND, unlike an awful lot of humans, the bears are capable of
learning if we give them a chance. The bears are just being bears, but
when their natural adaptability brings them into close contact with
people they lose.
People caused the problem (by sloppy food handling and environmental
pressures) so we have to be part of fixing it. Bears are very good at
getting food and people, in the large, are careless, so I think the only
workable approach is likely to be one that keeps the bears away from
food areas in the first place. Assigning "fault" doesn't make bears any
less dead or people any more careful.
Just my opinion.
-- Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WHHAWKINS@aol.com [mailto:WHHAWKINS@aol.com]
>
> The so called "Bear problem" is caused by humans. Mainly in
> the campground
> were humans drive in setup the tent, put the food out on the
> picnic table.
> Then the Bears see a free lunch. The Bears have to be
> captured and taken to
> the backcountry. The Bears come back and its food, capture,
> taken to the
> backcountry. After too many cycles of this; it goes to food,
> capture, and
> death of the Bear. The Bear was only doing what any animal
> would do and that
> is getting food to live.
>
> The problem is not the Bear. It is the lazy, ignorant human.
>
> Wildbill
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