NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/k12/ed/science/1762

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From: [e-mail] (Tyler Coffey)
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Subject: bears
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:07:36 PDT
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hey! A greeting from Bonners Ferry, Idaho.  Bonners Ferry is a town
in northern Idaho of about 4000. I'm a junior in high school here.
My dad is a logger.  Most of the community here is supported by
timber dollars. Living in Northern Idaho for all of my life, it has
been a common sight to see such wildlife as deer, elk, moose, and
bear. Bears have usually not been a problem, however in recent
years, the problem bears from the National parks such as
Yellowstone, and Yosemite, have been tranquilized and transported
up to the Selkirks, which is the area where we live. As I said
bears have not been a problem but when you take bears who are used
to people and transport them, it makes for trouble. To complicate
things, the most common bear transported is the grizzly bear, and
laws protect them so heavily that some people won't shoot them even
if there lives may be in danger for the fear of the strict laws.
Northern Idaho is on the expansion pretty heavily.  We get alot of
granola eating hippies who come from California as well as other
places to be one with themselves and live off the land. Most of
these people don't know how to act around the wildlife and get
themselves in trouble.  Now I'm no expert on this subject, and I'm
curious to hear other peoples replies so please do so.


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