fta0303
Well-Known Member
The man was 300 yards from his companion, not 300 yards from the bears when first seen. We don't know what that distance was. If he'd announced himself immediately, he might still have had a problem. Sow with yearlings - she won't fear for her cubs, cause they're big enough to care for themselves. She might initiate a predatory attack to teach them, though. Or she might just object to his presence, no matter what the distance. Many are unacquainted with the bear's olfactory acuity, and they don't mention that on signs. I don't know many bear experts who are so good that they can blame the victim of an attack.Story framing is the problem for me, the end focuses on this hard dig at delisting only occurring if a senators son or governors son gets hit.
There are a myriad of solid reasons why they need delisting, and even more reasons why the push for reintroduction of predators like wolves, cougars and Grizzly is bad. The least convincing reason is a dude from Georgia ignored the pervasive understanding of healthy bear interactions. With a self identified 300 yard lead, didn't implement any known methods nor made his weapon appropriately ready.
Society does need to re evaluate its relationship with big predators, but not because someone from their own account learned from the school of hard knocks. If a senator or governors son decided to try the "stay silent and be shocked when it goes wrong" method, I'd levy even harder criticism about knowing better.
Every aspect of life has risk, it goes up when you ignore established known norms. Sucks when that lesson is learned with stitches, but jeepers creepers it was a text book way on how to get your arse bit by a bear.
Story framing is the problem for me, the end focuses on this hard dig at delisting only occurring if a senators son or governors son gets hit.
There are a myriad of solid reasons why they need delisting, and even more reasons why the push for reintroduction of predators like wolves, cougars and Grizzly is bad. The least convincing reason is a dude from Georgia ignored the pervasive understanding of healthy bear interactions. With a self identified 300 yard lead, didn't implement any known methods nor made his weapon appropriately ready.
Society does need to re evaluate its relationship with big predators, but not because someone from their own account learned from the school of hard knocks. If a senator or governors son decided to try the "stay silent and be shocked when it goes wrong" method, I'd levy even harder criticism about knowing better.
Every aspect of life has risk, it goes up when you ignore established known norms. Sucks when that lesson is learned with stitches, but jeepers creepers it was a text book way on how to get your arse bit by a bear.