Comments on: Relaxing With Alaska's Big Brown Bears

Bears And People Get Up Close At Sanctuary, But Will The Animals Know To Fear Hunters?

[fosterparrot]

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[fosterparrot]

Animal "watching" now brings in nearly twice the revenues that animal hunting does. The US Fish and Game department is protecting their "good old boy" friends and their perceived "rights" in order to protect their jobs. If only they were smart enough to "go with the flow" and evolve they would enjoy not only job security but they would probably be getting a raise!

It is a well known fact that big game hunters are sexually disfunctional and that the only way they can achieve "satisfaction" is at the moment of pulling the trigger.

There will be a day and a moment in time when the horrific injustices, like this one, against animals "triggers" the conscience of all Americans to save their wild heritage and not to hang it on their den walls.
Marc Johnson

[warrenhl]

I saw this story on the news last night and quickly became enraged. What can I do to prevent their playground from becoming their murder site? If anybody knows, please post.
Thanks,

Any hunter that takes pride in killing these bears is a coward. Our present administration seems to want to kill everything that it is afraid off. Personally I have lived with bears most of my life. If you respect their space they will respect yours. There is nothing exciting as meeting a brown bear in the forest face to face. I have had close bear encounters in which I had entered their space, every time the bear would warn me that I was too close and I would leave. Recently I walked upon 7 Brown Bears hanging out on the Berners Bay flats, I was about 500 feet downwind of them so I started to wave my arms and yell at them to show them that I am human. I was traveling away from them and all that the bears did was to stand up and take a look at me. After that they continued grazing. The thrill you get from seeing a bear in the wilds far outweighs the thrill you get from shooting a bear with a large caliber rifle.

[neodebbie1]

I strongly disagree with opening up this land for hunters. These bears have grown accustomed to humans and now they are being sent to the slaughter. I think the government needs to rethink the situation and step up and do what is right for the bears and also for mankind.

[mickiharlow]

To set up these bears to come so close to humans and then to allow them to be shot is a cowards way of hunting.

I do NOT believe that "shooting fish in a barrel" is good hunting.

Any hunter that would go to this place and take pride in killing these animals should be ashamed of themselves!!!

[rccbsnews]

Jerry: Last time I checked most people call the bears you showed in you Alaska piece last night Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). Yes, they are a subspecies of the Brown bear (arctos horribilis), but that like calling a Labrador Retriever a big dog. Those are the same bears that have killed humans in Alaska and are killing livestock in the western states surrounding Yellowstone. Where you trying to be spin your story to make the "Brown Bear" less "Horribilis" and therefore bring more sympathy from the left leaning anti hunting crowd? Come on, get your story right. Give us the news without an adgenda and if you are going to bring up a story that has two sides to it, let both sides tell us thier own views. That is called balanced reporting. As a hunter I would have been interested in hearing from someone that represented the hunters in Alaska, so I could have started to form my own opionions on Alaska's hunting regulations.

Rob Carroll
Clovis, California

[cbscomment]

Begin with "any trophy hunting of any animal is barbaric and ignorant". The potential killing of the Alaska brown bears around McNeil River will be nothing less than a slaughter such as found on exotic game "farms". Only a warped and cowardly individual could participate in such an activity. All those with any desire to murder those bears including the State of Alaska should be ashamed. Please humans, come to your senses.

[sooshineuk]

I am horrified to read of the intentions to treat these creatures as "Trophies" to hunt and kill.
If African nations can learn to respect and appreciate the vast income made from carefully viewing wildlife purely from interest or photography then why cannot the people of Alaska/USA? To kill these animals is totally barbaric and unnecessary! I had hoped to get to visit Alaska to see the bears catching Salmon for myself, but having read this report I will stick to visitng nations that have more humane respect for wildlife in future.
(Sickened in the UK)

[megan111s]

Hunters continue to kill males because they are larger, and want a big bearskin rug or a trophy for their wall, when, if they truly wanted to limit population, they would hunt only the females.

As a top predator, bears seldom overpopulate. The consequences of hunting on predators are often unpredictable.

Caring about the sustainability of the ecosystem, ensuring that everyone is allowed to view these beautiful creatures (and not just on your wall), and having concern for their welfare, particularly when they are left to bleed to death from a hunter's bullet, is nothing to be ashamed of and does not make one a "tree hugger". It makes you human. Most people don't hunt and there's a reason for that.