Subj : bear siting..
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Tue Jun 03 2025 01:22:00

Hello August!

RM> [...] he found a black bear in the room eating the food
RM> out of the dog's bowl.

AA>A neighbour about .5km away to the East of my property has had
  >bears visit her house/property in recent weeks.  She keeps
  >chickens. The bear[s] broke through the chicken shed, killed
  >most of them, and ransacked the chicken feed.  They even
  >attempted to rip off the rear fender/bumper of her car - she
  >still still had a few extra bags of chicken feed in the trunk.
  >The bear[s] also attempted to scratch apart the front door of
  >her house a couple days ago.

Definitely not good, and once they associate your house with
food, they usually keep coming back. A close friend of mine
was having problems with bears tearing bird feeders out of the
trees at his place. He was a big hunting fan and when this
happened outside of hunting season, he called the ministry but
they said there was nothing they could do about that, likely
meaning the problem was trivil in their opinion..

He told them that, by law, he could shoot a 'nuisance' bear at
any time. They argued that they didn't think he had grounds but
he ended up over the next few years shooting at least 3, maybe 4,
bears at his place. He wasn't even into hunting bears for meat.
He had a good sized property and owned a front end loader and
was just burying them on the property.

My thought would have been to contact aboriginal groups in
the area to see if they wanted them, but since he was a status
aboriginal (living off of the reservation) I suppose he knew
whether that would be of interest to them or not..

AA>Bear citings have also been made less than 1km away to the West
  >of my property. I have a neighbor to my West about 300m away
  >that has some chickens too.  So.. my property is probably used
  >as a convenient path.

Yes, our biggest issue here is that there are large berry patches
around this area so there are often bears around 'grazing' in those.
More than once they have showed up while one of us was out picking
the Blackberries, Rasberries and Blueberries ourselves..

Several times I've run into a bear when jogging down the wooded
one lane road that comes in here. Since none of us has actually
been chased or attacked I guess we just try to avoid them but are
not overly frightened of them. Closest I came was running around
a blind curve and finding myself about 10 feet from a mother bear
with a cub. She reared up on her hind legs which had me worried
for a minute, but I just stopped and held my arms out wide to try
to appear bigger, (Arms Up!.. Ha) and after a minute she dropped
back down and headed off into the woods with the cub following..

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