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Good shooting...

Probably happens more often than we know about.

Only because of dumb fuggery.

Sure Paul, it's your elk, just let me get my saddle off of it.

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Couldn't tell a niqqer from a hole in the ground.

Hahaha! I think I saw that in a Cowpokes cartoon.

. When When is your next Klan meeting?

The night following your next Drag Queen performance.

Fugg off, antifa scum

The Klan needs their Grand Wizard.

Lol

Even happened to a Game and Fish bear expert Caldumbfugg.

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Big deal.

AK F&G just killed about 100 in the Mulchatna caribou herd calving grounds.

The herd, once 200K strong, is down to 13K if I remember correctly from the article I read this morning. Closed to hunting for several years, now. Several factors at play- habitat, disease, predation. ( And probably more poaching by the natives than anyone is aware of - and they do know of some).

Predation is the only thing we can work with, so the Game Board authorized a cull of bears and wolves this year, during calving time to see if that will help calf survival.

100 is way more than they anticipated (when in doubt, keep shooting! ). Only about 5 were blacks. Some cubs were killed too - they wisely did not report how many. F&G thinks bears came in from surrounding areas for calving feasting, hence the high kill, but who knows? Bear populations are always way underestimated without a hair snag DNA study, lasting 3 years or more.

The preservationists of course have their panties so wadded up their eyes are bugged out. "They aren't following the science!!!"

Ain't no science to follow - that's why this experiment is being done. This IS the science! And will determine what happens in the future, to some extent. The meat was donated to anyone who would take it.

By my reckoning, that's at least 500 calves that will possibly live to 90 days, a not insignificant increase to the herd if they then make it through the winter.

Again IIRC (not going to look it up) the prior study indicated 90% of the predation there is by bears.

“Ellsbury explained he’d seen a rather large black bear while working in the Sweetwater Creek drainage along the North Fork of the Shoshone River.”


“Browning said the bear was a roughly 200-pound male grizzly, dark in color and brown or black on its rear end and lower legs with blond tips on its back, upper sides and around its head. The animal also had long front claws, a back hump and a somewhat dished facial profile, Browning said.”

A 200 pound bear is NOT “a rather large” bear irregardless of whether it’s a black bear or grizzly. I’m not surprised that a “professional” working for the states or feds can’t do the most basic functions of their job. I’m also not surprised that a dipshit, over-educated idiot working for a government agency thinks that a 200 pound bear is “rather large” and worth obsessing over.

It seems to me that if even a professional biologist that specializes in large carnivores can’t identify the species then the state should replace him with someone that has a f’ing clue.

Aces - you aren't wrong.

And there have been grizzlies in that country all along. I was working USFS trail crew in the St Joe , Calder Ranger District, in 1967, and we saw, at about 100 yards, up Big Creek, south side of Cemetery Ridge, a sow with two cubs, and there was no mistaking what she was, even though none of us had actually seen a griz before. So there were at least 4 even then, somewhat south of Wallace.

Of course, officially, we were wrong... "there are no grizzlies in Idaho" ....

The next year, I carried a personal rifle , which the rangers didn't approve of but did not outright prohibit.

People don’t seem to care much about the caribou, moose, elk, deer etc. the animals they are most likely to actually encounter. The apex predators are the only ones that matter to them.

It would be nice to see the big caribou herds make a comeback.

Osky

Hes proof they arent all bleck.

How’s your friend named buzz

There’s a dirty carpet that needs cleaning