Grizzlies to be dropped by helicopter into Washington state! Panicking residents buy up honey supplies to HOARD IN THEIR HOMES!

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Nobody is buying up the honey supplies and inadvertently luring grizzlies to their homes and apartments.



Washington state

"Grizzly bears will be brought into Washington’s North Cascades. After more than 30 years of work, the federal government decided on a plan to slowly transport the grizzlies into the wild, remote landscape."

"For years, biologists have suspected only a handful of grizzly bears likely live in the North Cascades. There are so few bears that the population is considered functionally extinct."

"The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to bring in three to seven grizzlies within five to 10 years. The goal is to reach a founding population of 25 bears."

"Federal officials plan to move the bears in from other healthy ecosystems that are similar to the North Cascades, including places like Montana, Wyoming and interior British Columbia. They'll use culvert traps to capture the bears, with capture and release generally happening between June and September.

Federal officials aim to capture bears 2 to 5 years old with no history of conflict. Officials hope to bring in more female bears than male bears.

The bears will be brought in with a helicopter to areas that are largely roadless, have minimal human use and berries that bears like to eat.

In the end, around 200 grizzly bears could be translocated to the North Cascades over the next century."

"However, some orchardists and ranchers in Okanogan County have raised concerns about bringing another top predator onto the landscape.

“We think the grizzlies are going to come to the orchards, where there are apples. They’re going to maul our workers. It’s going to be very dangerous,” said orchardist Sandee Freese in an earlier interview."

"That did little to comfort people who’d pushed against bringing in grizzlies. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., has loudly opposed relocating grizzlies to part of the district he represents. He called the plan outrageous."

Feds to restore grizzly bears in Washington’s North Cascades

Grizzly bears will be brought into Washington’s North Cascades. After decades of work, the federal government decided to slowly move them in.

www.opb.org

 

[Sejanus]

This looks like it could go hilariously, yet violently wrong.

 

[DamagedGoods]

There are many apple orchards in BC in the same area inhabited by brown bears, and I don't recall hearing about orchard workers being mauled all the time. In BC there were an average of 10 brown bear attacks per year from 2010-2021. And the articles I've read suggest that most of those attacks did not happen on orchards.

I just feel like if brown bears were really that prone to mauling people, more people would have been mauled where there are a lot of brown bears.

 

[cubby]

Bears are not dumb, they know their apex predator is humans, unless you happen on one accidentally while you are in the bear's habitat, you're likely never to see one.

I have lived in the country all my life, tho we don't have any big animals here but do have lots of small ones and I've never seen one, what I see is all the cats and dogs that people abandon at the end of the road.

 

[DamagedGoods]

Now.... if they started air-dropping polar bears into my area... I'd be concerned.