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Post by featherduster on Aug 11, 2015 9:39:45 GMT -5
The Black Bear which has been hanging around LaPorte county for several weeks turned around and crossed back over into Michigan but then returned to Indiana back to the area of northern LaPorte county. The way we know he is from Michigan is because the Michigan DNR had been following his movements before he arrived here in June and notified Indiana when he was crossing over into our state. Now the funny part, The Indiana DNR has borrowed 2 live catch bear traps from Michigan and had them placed out in a area he frequented, the DNR watched him go into the trap and the door slammed shut. Everybody was high fiving as they walked back to get the truck to tow the bear trap back to Michigan when suddenly a Black Bear runs past them and disappears into the bush. It appears there was an area of some kind of screen on this trap that the Bear was able to peel back and make his escape. sooooooooooo.............................THE WILD BEAR CHASE CONTINUES.  |
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 11, 2015 10:03:11 GMT -5
Wow.. All this commotion over one little black bear.
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Post by chubwub on Aug 11, 2015 10:10:28 GMT -5
I'm disappointed that people just can't learn to live with the bear. They probably got all worked up about that lion and say people need to coexist with them but when it comes to the first black bear indiana has had in over 100 years it's all "oh no, not in my backyard! Think of the children! "
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Post by featherduster on Aug 11, 2015 10:39:20 GMT -5
Wow.. All this commotion over one little black bear. The last time a truly wild Black Bear was seen in Indiana was in the 1870's. I fear that this poor bear will either get hit by a vehicle or some urban deer season hunter will shoot him. |
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 11, 2015 10:45:39 GMT -5
Yep.. I think it's very neat they're coming back. Sounds like a 3-ring rodeo up there though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 11:11:30 GMT -5
NW Indiana is a tough place for a bear population to succeed. I predict there will, within my lifetime, be a small population of bears in portions of Southern Indiana, starting in the SE portion.
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Post by kevin1 on Aug 11, 2015 12:27:53 GMT -5
NW Indiana is a tough place for a bear population to succeed. I predict there will, within my lifetime, be a small population of bears in portions of Southern Indiana, starting in the SE portion. I could do without them. |
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Post by duff on Aug 11, 2015 17:54:52 GMT -5
NW Indiana is a tough place for a bear population to succeed. I predict there will, within my lifetime, be a small population of bears in portions of Southern Indiana, starting in the SE portion. Laporte co isn't the same as "NW indiana" in my opinion anyways. |
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Post by windingwinds on Aug 11, 2015 18:52:50 GMT -5
Indiana is not a wild state, it's rows upon rows of crops. Bears, are not cuddly little teddy bears, regardless of the government's Smokey Bear "bear hug" ads. Personally I feel no need to remove my bird feeders, stop growing fruit trees, raspberries, gardens, livestock just so I can get along with bears. Bears that will eat garbage because it's easy and get hit by cars. It's a romantic idea, but our general human population is out of control.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 20:24:12 GMT -5
There are bears crawling all over places like Harrisburg, PA. They will be in the southern 1/3 of Indiana eventually. It's almost bound to happen, IMO.
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Post by swetz on Aug 11, 2015 21:50:50 GMT -5
My parents in SW Pennsylvania have had bears frequent the neighbor's bird feeder. Every once in a while they wander into a residential area or the outskirts of town. Not too many problems with them, but there's also a lot of mountainous areas for them to hide out in
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Post by chubwub on Aug 12, 2015 9:25:34 GMT -5
If New Jersey, the state with the largest population density in the United States can live with 4,000 black bears surely Indiana can tolerate a couple hundred or so.
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 12, 2015 20:21:32 GMT -5
I would rather not have bears just like I'd rather not have mountain lions and poisonous snakes or alligators everywhere
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 12, 2015 20:21:55 GMT -5
Or wolves for that matter
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Post by stevein on Aug 12, 2015 21:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by chubwub on Aug 12, 2015 21:29:49 GMT -5
Well, there's lots of farmers and orchards that would rather not have deer or crows around or fisheries that would be happy if otters went extinct in Indiana again or pet and livestock owners who want every coyote and fox dead but that's not exactly fair to the wildlife and the mindset of picking and choosing what native animals we will allow and want to exist in the ecosystem is pretty counterintuitive to champions of conservation motto we are supposed to have as responsible hunters.
As we continue to encroach upon wildlife's habitat, either we are going to allow and facilitate the extinction of these animals or will have to learn to coexist and acknowledge that all wildlife has a vital role to play and we are simply but one miniscule thread woven into a very large tapestry.
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Post by firstwd on Aug 12, 2015 22:09:53 GMT -5
I would love to have bears down here. The paranoid pot heads would never go into the woods again, and the method heads would tweak out and try to catch one.
My life would be filled with lots of YouTube material.
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Post by 36fan on Aug 13, 2015 11:25:13 GMT -5
Well, there's lots of farmers and orchards that would rather not have deer or crows around or fisheries that would be happy if otters went extinct in Indiana again or pet and livestock owners who want every coyote and fox dead but that's not exactly fair to the wildlife and the mindset of picking and choosing what native animals we will allow and want to exist in the ecosystem is pretty counterintuitive to champions of conservation motto we are supposed to have as responsible hunters. As we continue to encroach upon wildlife's habitat, either we are going to allow and facilitate the extinction of these animals or will have to learn to coexist and acknowledge that all wildlife has a vital role to play and we are simply but one miniscule thread woven into a very large tapestry. Chub - coyotes aren't "native" to Indiana. They didn't not exist east of the Mississippi River prior to wolves being extirpated. But as this shows, if you kill off on species, another will be right there to take its place...but sometimes the replacement is worse than than the original. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 13, 2015 17:56:39 GMT -5
I love black bear and wolves and lions and all animals there are some animals I do not wish to encounter
There is a place and time for all things
But in my circle of life I prefer to be the top predator.
Good place for bears is New Jersey or the Appalachian mountains or Alaska
Good place for wolf is Chicago I don want to see these animals dissapear just don't want to have to deal with them taking my picnic basket and such
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Aug 13, 2015 18:15:12 GMT -5
Most states have a Black Bear population. There are over 40 states that currently have a Black Bear population. You can hunt Black Bear in dozens of different states now days including Michigan and Kentucky.
Ohio has a growing Bear population also and several have been seen close to Cincinnati, Ohio close to Indiana in recent years. It's very possible that one day in the near future a Bear is likely to wander into Indiana from Ohio.
Could Bear live in Indiana ? Yes in a few counties, they can live and adapt to just about anywhere they find food, water, and habitat. Central and northern Indiana could not support any Bear population. However, the Hoosier National Forest is large enough to support a very small Black Bear population. However, there would likely be a lot of bear that would wander out of the forest onto private land.
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