Hurricane Cronesmoon ([info]cronesmoon) wrote,
@ 2008-07-05 08:57:00
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A neighbor just drove over to let me know that he saw a bear go from his yard into ours. "A big one, too." Poor, lost bear. I don't see it, but there's plenty of room for even a big bear to hide among the trees and underbrush at the edge of the property. Still, perhaps it's made its way back up the hill toward wilderness. I hope so, for its sake. It will be Teh Enemy, down here among the furless.


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(Anonymous)
2008-07-05 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Please keep your fur-critters in...

We have frequent bears, biggish cats (bob-, wild-, etc.), and coyotes. I try to corral all the indoor-outdoor four-leggeds and keep them inside at night, especially when the coyotes sing in the pasture across the road.

Mo

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[info]cronesmoon
2008-07-05 09:40 pm UTC (link)
The girls are always in. Much as Lu would like to go out and eat everything that moves, she hasn't been able to convince me that it would be a good idea to let her try.

I think there are some cats here, but I haven't heard any coyotes. Used to hear them a lot in ND, where they also have cats but not often bears. Poor wild things, just trying to survive same like everybody else.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-05 06:52 pm UTC (link)
Second thought --

We're not allowed to injure bears down here, unless they are actually attacking a human (hasn't happened in a long time here), but instead have to call Fish and Game to come trap them and move them to a more bear-friendly location. In our case, that's just a few miles south. Sigh.

Mo

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[info]cronesmoon
2008-07-05 09:47 pm UTC (link)
It would have been wiser for the neighbor to notify F&G, probably. Though I don't really know what the rules are here. Anyway, I never did see it, so I didn't have to figure out what would be the appropriate response.

Bear-friendly, from here, is probably not more than a mile or two away, just up on top of the nearby ridge, so it's no wonder if they might sometimes wander down here all unaware.

The Appalachian Trail crosses our road only a mile or two down the valley, though it's not clear to me which ridge it follows after that. Or what that means about the wilderness-quality of the ridges in question. All I know about the AT I read in Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. I think he was a tad huffy about how not-wilderness some of the Trail was in PA, actually. So maybe the bear was farther from its homeland than I thought.

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[info]2ndsoprano
2008-07-05 11:12 pm UTC (link)
There are bears all over PA. A bit south of where I grew up (in NE PA), people still get them in their backyards occasionally. I was in too much "city" for bears.

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[info]cronesmoon
2008-07-06 04:56 am UTC (link)
Well, yeah. This part of PA is all ridges and valleys, and the ridges seem to be pretty much wilderness. Not virgin, but not much peopled, either. So it's just not a very great distance from backyards to bear country, and the line is not always clearly drawn.

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[info]twyleth_teg
2008-07-06 08:37 am UTC (link)
BEAR!!
http://lesinvisibles.deviantart.com/art/quot-Little-Fuzzy-quot-90801542

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