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At least one poster here lives very close to where this bear was killed. Seems later than last year.
They say it is trash and birdseed driving the conflicts... I disagree. Too many bears without any aggressive plan or system to keep them wild.

https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/S...-killed-by-ADFG-this-year-509651151.html

South Anchorage brown bear first killed by Fish & Game this year

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By Grant Robinson | Posted: Wed 12:27 PM, May 08, 2019

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - State wildlife officials killed a young brown bear Monday night in the Huffman and Elmore neighborhood, marking the first agency kill in the Anchorage area this year.

Department of Fish and Game spokesperson Ken Marsh says the department had been receiving reports of the bear for several days that indicated it had become habituated to people. Reports suggested it was becoming aggressive and would refuse to run away from attempts to scare it out of the area. Marsh says the bear was a threat to public safety.

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Marsh says the bear was likely 2 to 3 years old. Posts in a Facebook group for monitoring bears seen in Anchorage show a young bear in South Anchorage lunging under a guardrail toward a motorist who slowed down to look at it. Marsh says the bear killed is likely the same bear shown in the video.


Marsh says the most recent report of the bear was that it was attempting to break into a poultry pen.

The Department of Fish and Game says that unsecured trash and birdseed is the biggest driver of conflicts between bears and humans.

Yep. Similar to down here...

It has been proven that third year sows breed on the Kenai. Generation after generation of young sows and their cubs migrating out of big boar ranges have moved into areas close to towns for protection. In the last few years, even large boars have been hit by cars and or taken out by ADF&G or local police departments, a rather definite sign of advancing populations. Overly late for much other than DLP management principals? Very likely..

And the fact the bear bio did not want his pets killed for a very long time... and used fantasy biology to count them.

We've got a 4 year old running around the place now, and I can't see giving a bear more than one chance to get scared of people.
Might get a paintball gun for that first time warning shot though.

I was close to shooting a black bear or two last year. If they are skittish and you only see them late and night or early in the morning I'm ok with them. When they are roming around mid day and could care less about your presence, it's time for DLP. Not sure if a neighbor might not have taken care of the issue.

Your bear may be gone... Huffman and Elmore... not far for a wandering brown bear.

I was talking about a 4 year old kid:)

We get more than our share (of bears), for sure. Chicken coop isn't helping with that, but since we electrified it bear losses are way down.

LOL!

We ain't got no steenking bear bio!

OOOpppppppsssssssssssss...

Someone there was lyin' about bear pops...

In fact, when the refuge did their bear-DNA study to guess at population numbers, not only was F&G’s bear bio not part of the study group, it was run by a bird bio.

Kinda like going to a gynecologist for a toothache.

well at my place this year in Minnesota for black bear problems again this year, i put up a electric white horse tape fence and my fencer and fence seem to be helping keep animals away even on deer too so far ?

They're everywhere now...……………..

Unless the bear bio showed symptoms of bias or stupidity. Or both.

Would you rather go to a dentist for a cooter wart?

Has been early here, too.

My cooter is fine.

That was rhetorical, I say rhetorical son!

Pics, or it doesn't count.

(I better get another cup of coffee - or if the pics are forthcoming, some eye-bleach))

That is clearly over the line... both the request and the production!

We usually have a few around our place but since we no longer leave the bird seed out and store our garbage can in the garage we have yet to see one. I know their out there though, seen tracks about a month ago in the snow in our backyard. They need a black bear hunting season and an increase in brown bear tags.