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

Hammer67 said:
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



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.



We've had them kill pigs on the farm behind our house.
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I used to work with and attend the IGBC Meetings in my former job.

I have spent some time in the Winds via Pinedale, & a little in the Palisades & Centennials. I know the areas where the dispersing bears are going into in WY and there's confirmed occupancy in the Bighorns now. Bears from the GYE are showing up in the the Pioneers, Beaverheads on the MT/ID state line and the Anaconda-Pintlers at the north end of the Big Hole Valley.

The NCDE bears are dispersing south of I-90 so individuals from both will meet up soon if they haven't already. Plus NCDE bears are east of the Rocky Mtn Front & also in the island ranges in d=central MT.

The bottom-line is both populations have exceeded their recovery goals, and need to be de-listed. Management should be turned over to the three states fish & game agencies. But as you say the enviros don't want that to happen for the obvious reasons.

But being in the woods in the Central and Northern Rockies isn't Disneyland and encounters always happen.
 
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Talyn said:
The bottom-line is both populations have exceeded their recovery goals, and need to be de-listed. Management should be turned over to the three states fish & game agencies. But as you say the enviros don't want that to happen for the obvious reasons.

But being in the woods in the Central and Northern Rockies isn't Disneyland and encounters always happen.
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Fully agreed on both counts. 👍
 
Bassbob said:
Always take someone else with you into bear country. Not someone you like that much though. And take a little .380 or .22 for defense. Will it stop a bear? Unlikely. But if your shoot your buddy in the knee it will give you time to get away.
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Thats like the common one where you tell your hunting partner that if you encounter a bear to run like h--l. When he says thats stupid because yu can't outrun a bear, thats when you tell him that you haven't got to outrun a bear, you only have to outrun him.
 
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Bear Aware Month continues with video about grizzly bears on the prairie​



HELENA – If you've traveled east of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, it might not scream "Griz Country." But don't let this prairie landscape fool you. There are grizzlies in this region and for the residents who live here they have some tools to avoid grizzly conflicts, one tool might be a little hairy. Special thanks to the Becker family with Stick Leg Ranch.

As part of Bear Aware Month, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is running a series of videos featuring bear aware content. For more details about Bear Aware Month, visit fwp.mt.gov/bear-aware.



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We live adjacent to a half million acre state forest. We have lots of black bears around here but rarely see them. They prefer to avoid us. People see them often south of here where there is a lot of development. I just can't understand why the bears are all of a sudden encroaching on human habitats like that.....
 
I saw pics of a dead black bear and destroyed tent. The guy showing the pics said he got him with his 9mm. Only a few scratches on him, sleeping bag was toast as well.
A friend who does security work in Alaska said he was chased around a dumpster by a polar bear. They are true man killers. He's of course, always armed.
 
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