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Osky;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope the day looks to be a decent one out your way, they say more snow for us which I could do without, but it is still winter after all.

The fellow seems like a bit of a poor planner for sure, but it's not up to us to lay out plans for successfully dealing with problem bears on a public forum.

In the "for whatever it might be worth" file, he's in the Yaak Valley and just south of Creston and Grassmere, BC, neither of which have any shortage of grizzly bears whatsoever.

One short hop over east in the Flathead Valley, absolutely close enough that any bear with a modicum of enthusiasm could travel, BC bios have 74 individual grizzly bears tagged.

Since we've stopped the grizzly hunt up here, they've become as much of a pest as the black bears, which we still can shoot, but not always off the back deck so to speak.

Insert obligatory interior grizzly tracks from our part of the world last October chasing whitetail.



Mostly what chaps the hide of many of us who live amongst the bears is the fools in the cities making the idiotic rules all the while chanting, "the bears were here first".

There seems to be a fair bit of evidence that the FN folks and the grizzly wandered down from Siberia together, but they don't want to talk about that.

Best to you today sir.

Dwayne