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I live in Idaho. The answer is - it's a poltical backwater. Can't wait to move away...
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/lo...a-d4f01c968464 https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/us/id...led/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-mask-burning/ https://apnews.com/article/brad-litt...76126fe3e43646 https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/lo...0-6d36a6f77288
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I carry bear spray and unfortunately have had to deploy it twice, once for a rogue mountain goat in Montana and once for a moose in Idaho. I have had several grizzly sightings/encounters and numerous black bear encounters and never felt threatened enough to go ‘oh **** I need a gun to protect myself ‘ Please don’t quote outside magazine, no one who spends anytime in the outdoors takes them seriously! Taking money from gun manufacturers may skew their opinion! |
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I killed a lot of animals on the farm for very good reasons and 30 years later I still have no problem with that. Everyone loves their KFC or Popeyes Chicken but how many have watched their own free range chickens devour a brand new litter of barn kittens? I'm not a hunter and love wildlife, My passion is my wildlife photography. But having grown up on a farm and seeing what I've seen I can understand both sides of these things. Heck the things I've seen doing my photography.... Watched a weasel one morning raid a nest of young rabbits. One by one he'd kill one, bring it out, dump it, and go back in to kill another. So many have a simplistic view of animals that come from having no real experience in their world. Last edited by jamesdak; 05-06-2021 at 10:06 PM. |
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Anthropomorphism helps people make sense of the world around them but it is not necessarily correct — its largely fictional. A construct made up. It especially causes lots of misunderstanding when people project or attribute things to animals that are not there.
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Black Bears are sissies. Just make some noise and they are gone. Up a tree. |
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*** jinxed myself in this thread with the mentions of predators reducing deer numbers and several people talked about Lyme disease.
I pulled a deer tick off myself this morning when I went to shower. It definitely got me. I did get it off without killing it though, nothing broke off inside and it’s crawling around sealed up in a bag in case it needs to be tested. Going to call the doctor shortly. I had been lucky the last 20+ years riding/hiking through the woods. |
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FWIW, research at the time indicated that bear spray had a higher probability of ending a bear/human interaction without injury/death to the human participant. I remember reading the research paper at the time, but sorry don’t have the citation or a link. Being around bears enough you learn to read their behavior to understand risk, but more importantly you learn to read the landscape and that heightened situational awareness more often than not allows one to avoid interactions. Wild animals are still wild and unpredictable though and on a few occasions found myself uncomfortably close to them. Just adding my experience, not trying to contradict or support any particular point of view. Living and working in bear (or wolf or lion) habitat is a choice and chosen method of self preservation is a personal decision. No right or wrong, just choices and assumed risk. Also FWIW, of the 4 bear caused fatalities that occurred while I was in AK, 2 were from black bears. |
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I'd by y'all the next.
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Yah don't screw around with Black Bears thinking they are not dangerous just cause they're smaller.
I've seen one charge and it was very scary. They can absolutely wreck you if they want to. |
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Racists, rapists, neonazis? No thanks! https://idahocapitalsun.com/2021/05/...e-are-for-now/ |
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Some doc's like to give a 1 double shot of doxy after initial exposure, not sure if this is std protocol now |
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