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Something vile is happening in Alaska
Jul 20, 2023 18:44:58 #
Using aircraft, the State of Alaska has recently massacred about 100 brown bears.
This was done without public knowledge and the public was never given a chance to attend meetings or comment on the Board of Game policies.
The story is here:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2023/06/10/state-wildlife-officials-trying-to-revive-southwest-alaska-caribou-killed-almost-100-brown-bears-in-less-than-a-month/
There has been several Letters to the Editor about this vileness. You can read some of them here:
www.adn.com
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2023/07/20/opinion-lets-make-sure-the-mulchatna-massacre-never-happens-again/
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2023/06/15/opinion-alaskas-recent-brown-bear-massacre-is-an-historic-disgrace/
As an Alaskan resident this is the most vile and embarrassing thing I have ever witnessed the State of Alaska perform under the guise of game management.
This was done without public knowledge and the public was never given a chance to attend meetings or comment on the Board of Game policies.
The story is here:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2023/06/10/state-wildlife-officials-trying-to-revive-southwest-alaska-caribou-killed-almost-100-brown-bears-in-less-than-a-month/
There has been several Letters to the Editor about this vileness. You can read some of them here:
www.adn.com
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2023/07/20/opinion-lets-make-sure-the-mulchatna-massacre-never-happens-again/
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2023/06/15/opinion-alaskas-recent-brown-bear-massacre-is-an-historic-disgrace/
As an Alaskan resident this is the most vile and embarrassing thing I have ever witnessed the State of Alaska perform under the guise of game management.
Jul 20, 2023 18:57:57 #
Jul 20, 2023 21:53:36 #
Jul 21, 2023 03:19:59 #
Fayle wrote:
Using aircraft, the State of Alaska has recently m... (show quote)
About equal with Alaska (Governor) shooting Wolves. Horrible policies. People and ranchers are the encroachers.
Jul 21, 2023 07:56:00 #
That's terrible! They also killed Black bears, and I thought they are not carnivorous. If they shot them from helicoptors did they just leave the carcass to go to waste? Why couldn't they just give out permits to hunters to take out the bears?
Jul 21, 2023 08:33:25 #
nimbushopper wrote:
That's terrible! They also killed Black bears, and I thought they are not carnivorous. If they shot them from helicoptors did they just leave the carcass to go to waste? Why couldn't they just give out permits to hunters to take out the bears?
Black Bears are omnivorous...but they will eat you...on occasion.
I forget the ratios on their diets...
But it's something like...
Black bear...30% meat.
Grizzly...50%.
Polar...95%.
Jul 21, 2023 11:51:29 #
Fayle wrote:
Using aircraft, the State of Alaska has recently m... (show quote)
You do understand that if the caribou are gone many of the brown bears will die as well don't you? How do you suggest they protect the caribou, tell the brown bears to go hunt something else?
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Jul 21, 2023 12:01:36 #
It is all in the pursuit of wildlife management. Caribou are a source of food for the indigenous people, and if left unchecked, the bears could decimate, even eliminate the herds. It’s a relatively small, isolated location. Animals are taken like that only after studies determine that there is an overpopulation of them. It’s the same for wolves, as well. An overpopulation can destroy the moose concentration of an area and so it is deemed, on occasion, necessary to reduce the number of wolves in an area. Like it or not, humans are here to stay, and so a balance between man and animal must be maintain, to the extent that it can be attained. Wolves are a favorite, popular animal and people get upset when they have to be taken, but wolves are not an endangered species. Neither are bears. So this operation may, at its face, seem outrageous, but it’s really not.
Jul 21, 2023 12:12:35 #
btbg wrote:
You do understand that if the caribou are gone many of the brown bears will die as well don't you? How do you suggest they protect the caribou, tell the brown bears to go hunt something else?
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wolves-yellowstone/
Jul 21, 2023 12:29:35 #
Fayle wrote:
Using aircraft, the State of Alaska has recently m... (show quote)
No argument from me. People can always an "excuse" for destroying and killing.
Jul 21, 2023 13:59:45 #
Fayle wrote:
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wolves-yellowstone/
What exactly does that have to do with the relationship between caribou herds in Alaska and bear predation?
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Jul 21, 2023 15:00:13 #
Jul 21, 2023 15:05:05 #
And how did all these wild animals populations stay in balance before humans started messing everything up.
Jul 21, 2023 16:47:02 #
lamiaceae wrote:
And how did all these wild animals populations stay in balance before humans started messing everything up.
We’ll never know.
Jul 21, 2023 18:23:28 #
They were in balance for around 10,000 years with humans.
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