The Wilderness Sportsman

WARNING: Do not watch this video if you do not want to see a mother grizzly killed when the hunter has plenty of time to use bear spray. What these hunters did is completely unethical. They should have been carrying bear spray. They had plenty of time to use this method. What they did instead was kill a mother grizzly, causing the cub to be abandoned.

This is the absolute worst of hillbilly America. Shame on Cabela’s for even supporting this type of behaviour.

These good ole’ boys did several things wrong:

1. Shot a bear in the vicinity of a mother and cub, causing the mother to charge
2. failed to fire a warning shot as the mother charged
3. failed to have bear spray on hand which they had plenty of time to use

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The goal is to respond to climate change broadly, she said, from helping forests adapt to warmer, drier conditions to reducing the agency’s carbon footprint by stepping up its purchase of alternative fuel vehicles.

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The impact statement has been in the works for years and covers 14.6 million acres of national forest land in Colorado and southern Wyoming. About 7.5 million acres of that — high-altitude forest — is considered habitat for the long-haired, big-pawed cat.

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Calling it the Healthy Forest Restoration Act II, Walden said the act would give the U.S. Forest Service authority to reduce fuel loads in certain areas currently off-limits.

It also would allow for expedited removal of burned trees.

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The staff there is getting ready to put the yearling orphaned bear cubs to bed so that sometime this winter, they can be placed in artificial dens in Montana’s backcountry.

Any reason why they can’t do this for the area north of Gardiner?

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What the agency calls “concentrated grizzly bear activity” led to closure of the Dick Creek area for several days. Fish, Wildlife and Parks says the chance of a bear encounter remains. The agency advises hunters to carry bear spray, and know how to use it.

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The bears that Carney and other bear managers occasionally have to kill live in an 8,933-square-mile-area known as the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, most of which is public land.