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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 2029156" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Brown bear season was closed on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska for around 23 years, because the Feds thought the population was in decline. It became abundantly clear to folks living here that we had too many bear. Lots of Defense of Life & Property killing incidents year after year after year. Finally they used collected bear hair samples and DNA analyses to confirm there were plenty of brown bear. Way more than the Fed's target level.</p><p>So they opened the bear season and more than 70 were killed in the first year of hunting. The hunting season was even opened year round, as there were plenty of bears. A number of record book boars were killed in the first 5 years after the long closure.</p><p>The last year of the 20+ year closure I had 3 big cubs inside my chain link fenced back yard. And a mad sow on the outside of the 7 1/2 foot tall fence huffing and puffing at me. </p><p></p><p>Where I live and hunt, brown bears that have been reared in closed hunting areas are a bigger threat than when they're hunted regularly, IMO. They get comfortable around us, and then their cubs get trained to learn we're no big threat. Because of this they spend more time in closer proximity to people. Eventually, at some time in their life, conflict and attack are more likely.</p><p></p><p>Grizzly bears that never, or rarely encounter people can be just as bad. They don't really know what to make of us when they have those rare encounters. If they're hungry, maybe we taste good? They can be testy. Heard a number of spooky stories from remote mountainous areas during dall sheep season. And had a standoff of my own. If you're not armed, it can turn bad, because some of them don't run.</p><p></p><p>I've always said the last bear I want to bump into is an itty bitty cub. Because momma's not too far away. Bump into sows with yearling cubs, all bets are off, no matter where the bear lives. But this could be an exception to my above rules of thumb. Might be better off to bump into small cubs where the sow has become very comfortable around people, and hope she doesn't view you as a cub killers.</p><p></p><p>The most certain rule of all? Don't trust any of them. View them all as opportunistic predators. Don't voluntarily give them any advantage or upper hand. View each interaction as potentially life threatening. Until they leave. Or they're dead. Some of them play for keeps. All it takes is one bad encounter to change your life, or end it, forever. The 10,000 to 1 odds mean nothing, if you end up being the 1.</p><p></p><p>Predators can behave differently in different areas for a variety of reasons. So don't count on lessons learned in your area to be reliable in mine, or vice versa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 2029156, member: 4191"] Brown bear season was closed on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska for around 23 years, because the Feds thought the population was in decline. It became abundantly clear to folks living here that we had too many bear. Lots of Defense of Life & Property killing incidents year after year after year. Finally they used collected bear hair samples and DNA analyses to confirm there were plenty of brown bear. Way more than the Fed's target level. So they opened the bear season and more than 70 were killed in the first year of hunting. The hunting season was even opened year round, as there were plenty of bears. A number of record book boars were killed in the first 5 years after the long closure. The last year of the 20+ year closure I had 3 big cubs inside my chain link fenced back yard. And a mad sow on the outside of the 7 1/2 foot tall fence huffing and puffing at me. Where I live and hunt, brown bears that have been reared in closed hunting areas are a bigger threat than when they're hunted regularly, IMO. They get comfortable around us, and then their cubs get trained to learn we're no big threat. Because of this they spend more time in closer proximity to people. Eventually, at some time in their life, conflict and attack are more likely. Grizzly bears that never, or rarely encounter people can be just as bad. They don't really know what to make of us when they have those rare encounters. If they're hungry, maybe we taste good? They can be testy. Heard a number of spooky stories from remote mountainous areas during dall sheep season. And had a standoff of my own. If you're not armed, it can turn bad, because some of them don't run. I've always said the last bear I want to bump into is an itty bitty cub. Because momma's not too far away. Bump into sows with yearling cubs, all bets are off, no matter where the bear lives. But this could be an exception to my above rules of thumb. Might be better off to bump into small cubs where the sow has become very comfortable around people, and hope she doesn't view you as a cub killers. The most certain rule of all? Don't trust any of them. View them all as opportunistic predators. Don't voluntarily give them any advantage or upper hand. View each interaction as potentially life threatening. Until they leave. Or they're dead. Some of them play for keeps. All it takes is one bad encounter to change your life, or end it, forever. The 10,000 to 1 odds mean nothing, if you end up being the 1. Predators can behave differently in different areas for a variety of reasons. So don't count on lessons learned in your area to be reliable in mine, or vice versa. [/QUOTE]
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