Predation.....

“It seems as the number of people visiting the back country increases,so does human animal contact.I was just reading where Algonquin Park has had 11 to 12 fearlees wolves over a twenty five year period.Four of these have resulted in people being bitten,two of them almost fatal.(wolves going after young children).The Park has also had at least two fatal incidents invovling bears since 1996...the last one 97 or 98 invovled a predatory bear who killed two canoeists at their campsite and partially ate them but did not touch their food bags or tear up any of their gear.The park staff found the bear guarding the partially eaten bodies and it immediately went after them.Two years ago the park closed off one of it`s canoe routes down by rock Lake due to a bear harrassing canoeists and hikers.We have the killings of two biologists recently in Alaska...men who knew what they were doing!! The Bruce Peninsula a area just 4 hours north of me , has had a increasing problem with bears on the trails and approaching cottages and houses and rifling through their trash.These bears show no fear of humans.Is it increased contact with humans that is removing this fear or is it something else???? Is the same thing happening in the USA...I know bears are a nuiscance on the AT. Does any one notice them becoming bolder??”

“Biologist? In Alaska?

I thought the dude was a former junkie that got famous stalking bears.

What biologist?”

“OOOOPS...It must be the troll in me!! I had heard they were wild life biologists...Thats what I get for listening to Canadian content radio and TV.”

“"We have the killings of two biologists recently in Alaska...men who knew what they were doing!!......."

I seriously debate that. Just cuz he didn't get the other times he #&%!$ed up doesn't mean he knew what he was doing. Dood just had his check cashed that his a s s wrote.”

“Where’s Arrrrrrrrrrnold to say, if it bleeds ve can kill it.”

“In the woods man is not the at the top of the food chain!”

“*Burp* now what's the problem here?”

“Go back to the testicle festival, waerowolf,,,,nothing to see here.”

“Damn bears, stealing my food!”

“Bears in the Dacks have become an enormous problem. Camping at Lake Colden was suspended in late summer. I personally have no solutions to offer, unfortunately.”

“Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.”

“But isn`t she dating Crazymike I`m all confused??”

“But isn`t she dating Crazymike I`m all confused??”

“Bear season opens in a few weeks.

I can only recall two bear attacks since bears were reintroduced 30 years ago.”

“And I am willing to bet at least one of those two involved some jackass getting between a sow and her cub.”

“Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Press Release

Most people never see a bear in the wild, but a Madison County man's encounter with one brings a reminder of possible dangers with wild animals. David Mincks, 59, is recovering in a Harrison hospital from severe injuries inflicted June 17 by a mother bear. The attack is only the second confirmed assault of a human by a bear in modern times in Arkansas. In the 1980's a backpacker suffered a severe shoulder bit by a bear as he slept in a small tent in northwest Arkansas.

Donny Harris, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission chief of wildlife management said, "Bears are rarely dangerous to humans and rarely aggressive. They usually avoid us before we even see them. But sow bears with cubs are something else. They are extremely protective of the cubs and can be dangerous."

"In this incident," he continued, "it's likely the bear was highly provoked by the confrontation wiht a dog. If you are in bear country be on the lookout for bears. If you see one or more cubs, don't appoach them at all. The mother will be somewhere nearby. Put some distance between you and the cubs immediately."

Mincks said he was checking a fence line on his 80 acre tract in southeastern Madison County near the Boston community when his young dog began barking at a clump of bushes. The bear came out of the brush only 20 feet from Mincks. But the bear scuffled with the dog, giving Mincks time to climb a small tree.

"The bear swatted at my dog, the dog ran off, then the bear came up the tree after me," Mincks said. "I climbed until I ran out of tree, then the bear grabbed my legs and started pulling me down the tree."

Mincks, who was barefoot, kicked the bear in the nose without effect before the bear tore flesh from his foot and fell down the tree. The dog returned, the bear chased it again, then returned for a second climb up the tree and another assault on Mincks, he said. Again the bear grabbed his legs, dragged him partway down the tree but again fell.

This time, the bear circled the tree, sat down and waited. About 20 minutes later, Mincks said, the bear went back into the bushes where he could hear a whining noise, probably on or more bear cubs, he said.

Mincks remained in the tree bleeding for more than an hour, climbed down, made a circle through the woods around where he had last seen the bear and painfully hobbled to his truck about a quarter mile from the attack site and drove to his small cabin. There he made a mixture of garlic, ground black walnut hulls and cayenne pepper that he applied to his wounds. "It burned like fire, but it stopped most of the bleeding instantly" Mincks said. He changed his bloody clothes, drove to a neighbor's home, Jim Webster, and Webster drove him to Harrison for medical help.

Mincks lives alone on the remote mountain tract that adjoins the Ozark National Forest. He said, "I had seen another on my place several times but not this big mother bear. I knew bears with cubs were dangerous, but I had no idea how aggressive she was or how fast she could climb a tree. I thought I was safe in that tree, but I wasn't."

Arkansas has about 3,000 bears, mostly in the Ozark and Ouchita mountain areas. Bears were once hunted commercially, and Arkansas was known as the Bear State. But nearly all were wiped out by the early 20th century. A restocking program in the 1950's and 1960's brought in 258 bears from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario, and the state's black bears have returned in the nation's most successful restoration of a large wild animal.”

“Arkansas and barefooted.”

“"There he made a mixture of garlic, ground black walnut hulls and cayenne pepper that he applied to his wounds. "It burned like fire.....

Geeze, I can imagine.”

“So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth."
bloodpusher
12:48:43 PM


There are those that call me...



...Tim”

“What an eccentric performance...”

“I don't think checking his fence line makes him a jackass. People who work all day in the city and think they have the inside track on nature are posers.”

“you want to know the difference between a black bear and a grizzly bear???

The black bear will climb the tree and eat you.....
The grizzly bear will knock down the tree and eat you.....
sorry....bad joke....”