"Unleashing" grizzly bears in Washington

[Djfan]

Good recent article on the historic and current limits of both brown and black bears.

Local bear sightings trigger black/brown bear discussions

 

[Ben Lamb]

Everything is safer on asphalt and concrete.

 

[Elky Welky]

They're not the boogy man and they could help with our crowding issues.

Why didn't I think of this?? Instead of capping permits to reduce crowding, we just need to release more grizzly bears to reduce hunter populations. Bears gotta eat too!

 

[Ben Lamb]

Why didn't I think of this?? Instead of capping permits to reduce crowding, we just need to release more grizzly bears to reduce hunter populations. Bears gotta eat too!

 

[ismith]

Especially since they are moving into more of Western Montana. mtmuley

Time for a border wall!

 

[Ben Lamb]

Time for a border wall!

They're ahead of that already

 

[ismith]

They're ahead of that already

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For the Washingtonians, not the bears.

 

[Ben Lamb]

For the Washingtonians, not the bears.

We can try, but it didn't stop Pearl Jam.

 

[Beignet]

For the Washingtonians, not the bears.

As far as I can tell Washingtonian anglers have already established a strong population density in most if not all of the Rock Creek drainage. There might even be breeding colonies of them there by now. I think we’re too late for a wall.

 

[tops911]

These bears have to go somewhere, Montana is over run with them and honestly we've run out of places to transplant trouble bears. They are out in the plains now. So I'm good with putting them in other states.

 

[atlas]

When are the first bears supposed to hit the ground in WA? I haven't found much on it.