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April 18, 2011 05:47 PM UTC
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Why are the “Humane Society types” worried about the resumption of spring hunts when Brown’s bill does not eliminate current provisions that forbid that?
http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLI…
Looks pretty simple to me.
The Durango Herald has it wrong when they say this:
Sounds like this bill would not repeal baiting bears or hunting with dogs, but would repeal the prohibition on spring hunts.
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The words [latter two]. Hope that clarifies, as the Herald probably should too.
I misread it.
Now I see why they are concerned.
HB11-1294, even amended, does not leave those provisions intact. It leaves it up the Division of Wildlife and Wildlife Commission to establish the hunting season.
It’s the baiting and using dogs to hunt that’s staying intact. Which is good. (I go hunting at the zoo with a bazooka. 😛 )
It’s just written randomly.
over bait or with dog packs are not really spring bear-hunting tactics. These two “hunting” methods are more typical during the late summer and fall hunts when bears are out foraging massively to lay on some winter fat before hibernation. (Think about when bears become a “problem” in their foraraging among human habitations — it’s almost never in the spring, but in the late summer and fall.)
The bill as I read it would allow the resumption of spring bear hunting (it’s not like J. Paul advocating to allow the aborting of fetus bears), but would not allow the resumption of the “hunting” techniques of baiting and dogs.
I mean, I’m sure the people who voted for this silly old measure in 1992 (incidentally, it’s the first ballot issue that I remember caring about–I told all my friends to tell their parents to vote for it) had no idea what a grave danger baby bears pose. We’d better starve them to death by killing their mothers so they don’t gang up, Ewok-style, and steal J. Paul Brown’s family heirlooms en masse.
Fer chrissake, this guy is just too much sometimes. I’ve refrained from trashing him in the previous “Cletus” posts because I was gratified by his vote on HB 1063, but this is really just ENOUGH ALREADY. If you don’t like black bears in your yard, lock your trash up. Simple as that. If you REALLY don’t like black bears, consider not moving into their territory, and support research programs like the North American Bear Center that actually study bear/human interactions, bear population statistics, and how to reduce human/bear conflicts based on evidence and research, not “conventional wisdom” that is often wrong. (Example: Conventional wisdom says never feed bears; actual NABC research shows that feeding stations in their territory during lean years reduce conflicts with bears.)
he’s deeply concerned about the members of his flock — bears, leeberuhls, and non-believers? Not so much.
They’re foraging creatures that prefer fruits, berries, nuts, and your trash. Only starving to death bears would ever even consider attacking a living, moving sheep for food. If he’s having bear problems, he’d get a quicker resolution by supporting an NABC-style feeding station proposal to stop them from starving, along with perhaps suggesting to the DoW that they issue more bear licenses in the voter-approved hunting season.
FACT: Bears are the most dangerous animal known to man.
FACT: Bears are well-known to be as blood-thirsty as Moammar Qadaffi, as prone to random acts of violence as Ted Kaczynski, and as cunning as Pierce Brosnan.
Anyone who denies these facts is either suicidal, a fool, or both.
They take themselves out of the game on the slightest hint of a booboo to the knee.
During the last 5 decades, black bears killed 38 people in all of North America (for an average of 0.76 per year). (Bear fatalities)
In just 1 year (2009), people killed an average of 41 people per day in the U.S. (Murder rate x Census)
Hell, honeybees, jellyfish, scorpions, and mosquitoes are each responsible for more human fatalities annually (from ~50 to more than 1,000,000 per year each) than black bears kill in half a century. (Actually Dangerous!)
Oooh! I get it! Was this not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement?
So, Leonard Smalls, where were the “facts” that should-not-be-denied? You’ll keep us posted, won’t you?
My only hope is that the legislature approves the use of napalm and chemical weapons in the War on Bears.
Who do you think sends all of those honeybees, jellyfish, scorpions, and mosquitoes to slaughter people en masse?
ANSWER: Bears. They are the Bin Ladens of the animal kingdom.
Thanks, man. I needed a new sig line.
Seriously. LS was being funny, very, very funny.
I’m never going out except to buy bug repellent. Interesting. But kind of scary.
or is it just another attempt to revoke regulations so the locals can shoot em up anytime they want?
I have black bears around my house during the summer and love seeing them return. It is a simple matter of keeping the trash picked up and it also it important to the health of the bears if you don’t let them eat tin foil or plastic bags.
Of course if Cletus would support funding of forestry programs maybe the bears would have healthy ecosystems so they wouldn’t have to forage around human communities to survive or be killed. Just saying
s/b Cletus could support funding
Firmly believe that administration of the bear population is best left to the DOW; not to referendum.
While bowhunting, my encounters with bears/fresh sign are commonplace; a somewhat rare occurence 15-20 years ago.
Specific areas of Colorado do have problems, inevitable with an increasing population. Fully understand that most are benign, but several encounters the last few years indicate many have lost fear of humans.
That, along with ever greater numbers, concerns me greatly.
The proposed bear bill is ridiculous for several reasons.
1. J. Paul Brown is a Sheep Rancher, you say the word Predator and every one of them runs for cover!
2. Colorado doesn’t have a bear problem, it has a human problem! If people would STOP doing the things that attract the bears, there would be NO problems. I live with them year around, 1 problem in 5 years, chased the big bad bear away, removed the bird feeders, and it did not come back.
3. Killing female bears in the Spring will also kill their cubs. You kill one female, you kill 4 bears.
4. They want to do this whenever and where ever. It’s a very comforting thought that you could be out hiking anywhere and stand a chance of getting shot by a hunter or running into a wounded bear.
5. The DOW already has full authority to remove or destroy a problem bear.
Honestly, if people don’t want to live with the wildlife in Colorado, why DO they live here?
Do you really think the Republicans care?