At first, it appeared that the Department of Conservation employees would release the 150-pound bear in a more appropriate environment, but that did not turn out to be the case.
"It got into beehives, it got into trash, it killed a chicken; it just kept coming back to humans," Conservation Department spokesman Francis Skalicky said at a news conference Friday.
The bear had been on the department's radar since the beginning of the month. It had been making no move to leave the area that was populated by humans and was unlikely to do so, Skalicky indicated.
The accompanying video is from KSNF/KODE.
This is very concerning.
ReplyDeleteTo lazy to find a place to relocate the bear. This is completely unacceptable. Whomever is responsible for this decision should be fired. The entire community is outraged, it was a senseless killing.
ReplyDeleteGive them your name. You can have the next one. People killed it by teaching it to associate humans with food. MDC is doing the right thing.
DeleteThey did the right thing,sad as it is,bears become serious problems for folks and their pets if too accustomed to human lifestyles...sad but snowflakes should learn facts before they eviscerate actions of others...
ReplyDeleteReally?
ReplyDeleteSnowflakes???
I suppose that makes you a Big Brave Hunter !
Why can we not just be HUMANS that have empathy for other living creatures!?
Bears do not speak the human language - but we must have the comforts that made this living creature think it had found a safe paradise !
Yep, snowflake fits.
DeletePerhaps there was a zoo that would have taken it?
ReplyDeleteI seriously agree with the idea of the Zoo. We are invading their territory every day, so eventually we are going take take over every spot that these animals inhabit. What is the answer that the conservation department is going to come up with then?
ReplyDeleteAnytime you call them on any wildlife issue they tell you to let nature take it's course. So my question is WHY then where they so concerned with this bear's not being able to fend for its self or getting killed by a larger male ? Seems like to me he had been in the wild up till a month ago and you said it was 2 yrs old . So pretty sure it would of done fine if released.
ReplyDeleteHunters have since the 1930s provided significant funding for wildlife and their habitat....too bad snowflakes really are emotionally engaged without much education on topics they get so stressed about....
ReplyDeleteIn Colorado, a bear near homes is tagged & removed twice. Third time, it is deemed too habituated to humans & is euthanized. Bring it, PETA. Locals took the lazy way out.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow morning, I will bet, everyone concerned with this bear will wake up and life will somehow go on.
ReplyDeleteYour bleeding hearts come from uninformed thoughts.