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I know where there's some prime grizzly habitat. Lots of food, at least for the less discriminating bear.
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I know where there's some prime grizzly habitat. Lots of food, at least for the less discriminating bear. I like where your heads at!
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A rancher friend told me there were grizzlies in the Snowies 13 years ago. Glad the F&G has finally caught up.
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A few years ago there was a sighting in Loma MT. So F&G set a trap.....and caught FIVE grizzlies ..Not extremely rare to see them on the plains east of the rockies now.
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Lewis & Clark found them in both No. and So. Dakota.
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I think George Custer shot one in the black hills
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Lewis & Clark found them in both No. and So. Dakota. And IIRC, either Lewis or Clark (I can’t remember which one now) was chased into the Big Sioux River a bit north of Sioux City in NW Iowa.
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Having read their journals a couple times, I was pretty sure of my statement above, but on review, I see the the most eastern contact with a grizzly that I find now was just south of present day Mobridge, SD, near the Moreau River.
That would be about 70 mi east and a bit south of the incident made famous in the novel Lord Grizzly about Hugh Glass.
I had thought that with Sgt Floyd’s fatal appendicitis at now Sioux City, Iowa, that a party was sent out north and a grizzly charge occurred sending one of them into the Big Sioux. That may be in error.
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Has anybody been to Gettysburg SD?
We were there about 15 years ago. There is a little museum in town that had a huge rock in the building.
That rock if I recall has an imprint of a human foot print and a Grizzly bear print. They have the plaster casts on display. There is a legend that goes with it.
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Theyre numbers are increasing everywhere and in all directions. Some locations are overpopulated or infested because of habitat fragmentation but thats changing and theyre are now starting to be found east of rockies in praire country and now in central Idaho coming from Montana and the northern populations.
Theres been several killed locally here near where im at in Idaho. That alone is an inducator that theyre present and the population is expanding.
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Black bears are moving west from Arkansas and Louisiana into east Texas. I'd imagine a grizzer bar can move around just as well. I've learned that just because the Parks and Wildlife Dept says there's none of whatever in so-and-so place doesn't necessarily mean it's gospel
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Black bears are moving west from Arkansas and Louisiana into east Texas. I'd imagine a grizzer bar can move around just as well. I've learned that just because the Parks and Wildlife Dept says there's none of whatever in so-and-so place doesn't necessarily mean it's gospel There have been confirmed black bear sightings in OK as far west as I-35.
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A few years ago there was a sighting in Loma MT. So F&G set a trap.....and caught FIVE grizzlies ..Not extremely rare to see them on the plains east of the rockies now.
Precisely. There are a lot more of them in a lot of places the government won’t acknowledge.
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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While it is not on the plains, even 20 years ago it was advised to be cautious when pheasant hunting in the Flathead Valley. I know a few folks who flushed grizzly bears out of a patch of cattails on Nine Pipes and a few other places between Ravalli and Kalispell.
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https://youtu.be/g0p4_0qpW4cThe Rez/commentary cracks me up. The USF&W must be something else.
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I think they should catch the extra and take them to Cali.
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While it is not on the plains, even 20 years ago it was advised to be cautious when pheasant hunting in the Flathead Valley. I know a few folks who flushed grizzly bears out of a patch of cattails on Nine Pipes and a few other places between Ravalli and Kalispell. It seems every few years or sooner someone has to shoot a griz in self defense at Nine Pipes while pheasant hunting.
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