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rrlund

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Found this little tidbit on the net:

"Then we stumble onto this complaint from a visitor to Yellowstone National Park. "Our visit was wonderful but we never saw any bears. Please train your bears to be where guests can see them. This was an expensive trip to not get to see bears." Seriously. We’re not making this up. Our only logical explanation is that all of Yellowstone’s certified bear trainers must have been called to emergency fire-fighting duty."
 
They ought to write back and tell them to coat themselves in honey and hang a cured
ham around their neck and then take a hike in the woods they'll see plenty bears.
 
They must be here, in Alberta.
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I remember years ago on tv (Maybe Candid Camera) they had two guys with a big valve over by Old Faithful. When it was time for her to blow, they came out of the woods, stuck the valve in the ground and started to turn it. The look on the tourists faces was hilarious.
 
We don't see many, but get one around here occasionally. A good friend of mine has a farm about ten miles away heard a noise out on his porch some years back, and went out to investigate it. It was a young bear in his trash can. Of course, James headed in the opposite direction around the porch. Jean still talks about him sailing past the window with " his little bear (bare) behind...."
 
I worked in Yellowstone two summers, some of the questions we got were amazing:

(sometimes a new hot spring would appear and kill some trees) "Were those trees along the river always dead?"

(woman came in and asked about an animal she saw) "It had tusks, what would that be?"
 
We stopped at a windmill museum in Indiana.
When some other guests showed up, the guide made a quiet
quip about the young girl's purple hair. That didn't last long.

She was with her grandparents. The grandmother started
by asking for two senior and two student discounts off the
$3 admission fee and then asked "when are you going to turn
the windmills on?"

When the guide pressed the button on the simulator to show
how some windmills could be folded to turn them off, she
asked "so windmills had electricity?"

I am not making this up!
 
We usually get 3 or 4 a year come up on the deck and check it out. Nothing gets the blood pumping faster than to look out the window and have a bear standing looking in 6 inches from your face. This year must be abumper crop as we have seen probably 10 to 12 around in different areas in the last month
 
My wife was at the dining room window when we had a visitor( black bear) who stuck his beautiful face up next to the small window screen and gave my wife a kiss through the screen while she was looking . Another time a big black bear came up on the deck and had a meal of sunflower seed from the bird feeder.Another big one came up and walked on the top rail of the deck rail ,did pirouette for about 10 min then got down, Noticed he had a injured paw. Didn't seem to bother him at all. another time when I was feeding penicillin to a sick raccoon, one came on the deck thinking of a trapped meal, didn't happen. Scared him off.
Bears are wonderful creatures to watch from the safety of an enclosure.We have pushed them out of their habitat ,so any food source is fair game for them.
Love the wild life and give them room to have a look see. I sure as heck don't crowd them.Just my way of showing respect.,
Regards.LOU
 
Around here the bear do the watching. A couple of weeks ago I went in the garage thru the open overhead door and a bear ran out the side door. That made my hair stand up.
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I always liked the story a travel agent told about a lady planning a trip to Hawaii and asking if it would be cheaper to fly to Los Angeles and take the train to Hawaii.

Like you said, you can't make some of this stuff up.
 
In about a month or so, my ole pal (black bear) will start wondering through. If he messes with my fansay, hand crafted bird feeder this year , I may 'PoP' him. (not really, I like coloring his ftass with Yellow paintballs !
 
go ahead and pop him now while he's close . get a bear permit this fall and put a tag on his frozen hide . let him thaw and take him to get a rug made .
 
crazy city folk...

we all have many bear stories, just black bears in my area..normally just big furry dummies.

but throw a city person in...
camp visitors....
visitor taking pics of a big male..close.
He didn't really care..but after a time he started to look directly at the pic taker and started woofin.
me..'You might want to quit and go in now'......

walking with a visitor..turn a corner..bear cubs at some distance.
visitor..'ain't they cute'...and actually stepping closer
me....'back away slowly, no sudden moves...I don't see her'
visitor..'Who?'
me...'Mama'
 
I agree, nice critters if you just 'run them off', when that don't work, you have a problem. Easily manageable. Don't have stuff they can eat outside, When they show up, put your bird feeders away (for 2 weeks). HTH
 
We had a young male make his way down here from central/northern Michigan this Spring- destroyed a lot of bird feeders along the river. Travelled all the way around the lake toward Michigan City, IN. I heard their DNR was planning to trap him and move him back up North, but have not heard if they have yet...
 
Like the idiots who think the "Deer Crossing" signs are put up so the deer will know where to cross the road and suggest the signs be moved to a safer place for the deer.
 
We were in Yellowstone a few years back and I saw no bears, though my wife claimed she saw a mama and cubs. Lots of bison, though. Never thought to complain to anybody. I guess I didn't realize it was a training problem.
 
That's as bad as the foreign idiot who put his daughter on the back of a buffalo that was laying down for a picture. Everytime I'm there I see people ignoring the warning signs and putting themselfs in unnecessary danger.
 

Bears were spotted this year in my county, albeit on the south west side (I'm on the north east side), Fairfield Cnty, Ohio.
 
They wander in here sometimes, but not very often over the years, same as the occasional moose, NYS DEC had one killed across the road several years back, it was estimated to be 300lbs.

I'd be a bit concerned if one like in your photo was a spectator to me working! He's a good looking healthy one! I had a large coyote sit and watch me years ago, I did not see him right away, did not think much of that then, but now, its likely to get solved with bullet.

Years ago I saw coyote bed down for a nap at the bottom of the hill, I was able to carefully sneak up on it, got right up to it, just stood there awhile, he came around, turned his head back, saw me, could not get his feet underneath him quick enough, ran off tail between his legs, heard him tearing through the cornfield til he got to the woods and into the dry leaves, he sure covered some ground, I'll be it only took him a minute to get off he property.
 
My game Camera shows the date as Month-Day-Year (08-12-15) or August 12, 2015.
My regular camera shows the date as Day-Month-Year(10-06-2015) or June 10, 2015.

I have to be careful when setting the date on both of them.
I think that's what you meant by the "pictures of the future".

The regular camera date is NOT October 6, 2015, but June 10, 2015.
Sorry for the confusion, blackhole49.
 
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