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May 7, 201412 yr Author It makes me sad to see such a wonderful and beautiful creature like this that is doing no one harm just get killed like that. It pisses me off.
May 7, 201412 yr It makes me sad to see such a wonderful and beautiful creature like this that is doing no one harm just get killed like that. It pisses me off. Do you feel that way about all hunting, mtnref?
May 7, 201412 yr It makes me sad to see such a wonderful and beautiful creature like this that is doing no one harm just get killed like that. It pisses me off. I had an awesome bear dish at our Wild Game Supper back in January. It was prepared with jalapenos and cream cheese.
May 7, 201412 yr It makes me sad to see such a wonderful and beautiful creature like this that is doing no one harm just get killed like that. It pisses me off. I don't know if you're being sarcastic, or serious, but I completely agree if you're serious. Never understood people getting their enjoyment/amusement from murdering another living creature.
May 7, 201412 yr I don't know if you're being sarcastic, or serious, but I completely agree if you're serious. Never understood people getting their enjoyment/amusement from murdering another living creature. Do you have a problem with it if they eat the animals they kill?
May 7, 201412 yr Do you have a problem with it if they eat the animals they kill? Nope. When it's done for food, I get it. I'll never understand how someone kills something for pure enjoyment. :idunno:
May 7, 201412 yr Nope. When it's done for food, I get it. I'll never understand how someone kills something for pure enjoyment. :idunno: Yeah I really don't get that either.
May 7, 201412 yr It makes me sad to see such a wonderful and beautiful creature like this that is doing no one harm just get killed like that. It pisses me off. And how is it different from Elk?
May 7, 201412 yr Everyone I've known to have killed a bear ate the bear meat. You can still have an animal officially measured for records and still use the meat. You'll notice that the record measurement on this bear was taken via skull size. I don't think I need to explain that the vast majority of usable meat on a bear exists in places other than it's head. So long as this hunter didn't let the meat go to waste, I just don't see the problem. For clarification, the brown bear (known here as a "grizzly bear") is a very widely ranging bear species. They live in the United States (particularly Alaska, as well as parts of Montana, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming), Canada, Russia, China, Mongolia, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, along with several other small pocket-locations in mainland Europe. There are several different subspecies of the brown bear worldwide, but the North American coastal brown bear is the subspecies that has its prevalence in Alaska, and is considered, worldwide, to be one of the bear subspecies of least concern in terms of conservation. Estimates say that there are somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 coastal brown bears in Alaska - which represents 95% of the total population of brown bear in the United States as a whole. That is a VERY healthy population, and is why, in Alaska, the coastal brown bear is not on any conservation protection list. There are 663,300 square miles in Alaska. The average brown bear's home range is about 500 square miles. If you do a little figuring, that means that at any given time, there are approximately 22 bears sharing a home range on any piece of Alaska. Numbers like that are just fine. Now brown bears have been and still remain on the endangered species list in the lower 48 states, as they should. Regardless, with a population like that still thriving in Alaska, brown bear hunting numbers are monitored to allow between 1,500 and 2,000 bears to be harvested each year, depending on the most recent bear population studies.
May 7, 201412 yr And how is it different from Elk? My guess...his feelings about this are stemming from the perception that ALL grizzly bears are endangered, although in Alaska, they are definitely not.
May 7, 201412 yr My guess...his feelings about this are stemming from the perception that ALL grizzly bears are endangered, although in Alaska, they are definitely not. Perhaps but he made no mention of that in his comments and has been anxiously awaiting the chance to take his son out and kill an Elk.
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