How to tolerate and live with grizzlies
I strongly disagree with most of the July 31 guest opinion expressing a “A measured view on grizzlies, from the ground.” The author states that “Human-wildlife conflict is escalating.” The only thing that I see escalating are more people armed with guns (with no bear spray) shed hunting, gathering mushrooms or picking berries, blowing away grizzlies because they were, more than likely, not alerting bears to their presence (by not making enough noise).
The sheds, mushrooms and berries aren’t going to run away if you are making sufficient noise to alert bears, but the bears probably will.
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