Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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Was there a season recently opened up in the Big Horns or was it killed doing livestock depredation or human endangerment?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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04/16/24 10:21 PM
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They are now being seen in the Pryor mountains so why not the Bighorns? Spreading out is what unchecked predators do for a living.
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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04/17/24 08:03 AM
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That’s an interesting cause for extermination, area unsuitable for bear habitation. Bears were pretty much the number one fear of the first whites and the then Indians inhabiting the prairies. Many stories told. I don’t fault the wildlife folks for using that reasoning for dispatching bears, I just wish they would use the same reasoning for wolves.
Osky
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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Many years ago while elk hunting near Red Lodge I seen a grizzly hunting pika's in a rock slide in the Beartooth mtns so it's really not that hard to believe that one went over to the Big Horns .
This bear didn't have a clue I was there as it was quite a ways away from me and even further from my camp and yes the elk weren't to be found on that trip because of it .
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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That’s an interesting cause for extermination, area unsuitable for bear habitation. Bears were pretty much the number one fear of the first whites and the then Indians inhabiting the prairies. Many stories told. I don’t fault the wildlife folks for using that reasoning for dispatching bears, I just wish they would use the same reasoning for wolves.
Osky Agree.
Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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My Uncle guided and logged near Ten Sleep for a decade. Never mentioned them but that was long ago and always changing. They are cool until on "my" livestock.
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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A friend of mine hunted elk with a guide somewhere out there in grizzly country. The guide said gun shots were like a dinner bell to a grizzly.
Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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They live in Anchorage. I guess Alaskans ( even Anchorage people) have a higher tolerance for them. “The location of the conflict was in the basin of the Bighorn Mountains and more than 80 miles from the eastern boundary of what is known as the Demographic Monitoring Area — the area considered biologically and socially suitable for grizzly bears,” according to Game and Fish." There is some weird stuff that happens in the lower 48. Like trying to keep wildlife in a "socially suitable" area. Maybe try a fence.
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Who is John Galt?
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Re: First Grizzly Killed in the Bighorn mountains
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I think Joe Pickett is on the case Joe Pickett solved the grizzly problem in the most recent C.J. Box book.
Providing wild fur to the industry at below the cost of production for over 50 years.
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