Wanna hunt in Alberta ?

Don't forget the others predators out there too.

My most disconcerting encounters so far were with cougars.

3 times in the last 15 years hunting in Alberta I had close cougar encounters.
Last years two juveniles ( I think) cornered and tried to encircle me in the dark on the way back to my truck.
Only a warning shot into the ground right in front of them convinced them I was not what they were looking for.

My bear encounters over the years were tamer by comparison but I do pay attention.

Also shared a a hunting area with a pack of 5 wolves last year.
Never saw them but there were lots of fresh tracks in the snow and I heard them often.

It's part of what makes hunting in Alberta special.
And predator numbers are up where I'm hunting.
 
hey guys, would appreciate if you marked down some of these sightings on wildlifetracker.ca

Would be great :) don't have any grizzly sightings up just yet.
 
hoocli said:
hey guys, would appreciate if you marked down some of these sightings on wildlifetracker.ca

Would be great :) don't have any grizzly sightings up just yet.
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Run of the mill around here. :)

Based on our past 3 years of sightings, MVBS receives more sightings in September than in other months. However, we’ve received an unusually large number of sightings in the past 4 weeks:

29 bear sightings (11 grizzly bear, 11 black bear, and 7 unknown bear species)

13 cougar sightings

42 sightings in total - this represents 1/3 of the sightings for the entire year so far.


http://www.mountainviewbearsmart.com/bear_activity_report.php
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Run of the mill around here. :)

Based on our past 3 years of sightings, MVBS receives more sightings in September than in other months. However, we’ve received an unusually large number of sightings in the past 4 weeks:

29 bear sightings (11 grizzly bear, 11 black bear, and 7 unknown bear species)

13 cougar sightings

42 sightings in total - this represents 1/3 of the sightings for the entire year so far.


http://www.mountainviewbearsmart.com/bear_activity_report.php
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fair enough :p this website just went live a week or so ago so Its more of a waiting game right now for me.
 
FLHTCUI said:
Ardent...I hope you are wrong when it comes to the Closure of Grizzly Bear Hunting in BC.
Just saying, and Thanks for sharing the pictures .
Best Regards,
Rob
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Really hope I'm wrong too Rob, think it'll come one day though. Put in for those draws every year, they are one of the megafauna I talked about, creatures of another age.

 
Grizzly Adams said:
Better make sure your heart can take it. :)

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Took this last Sat. evening. Betting the guy in the red coat , sitting near the fenced off enclosure, never even knew.

Grizz
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Now that I have read the explanation I see what is going on here.
Roughly where in Alberta is this? I love the wide open space. Ontario is mostly flat with trees everywhere so I would never get a long view like this. I DO want to go hunting in AB

Ian
 
Came home to this after a long day in the bush back in 2012 near Tumbler Ridge. No food had been left at camp. Bears just tore everything up for the hell of it. We slept in the trucks that night.

They even chewed this bare of Irishspring soap!

 
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They even chewed this bare of Irishspring soap!

Grizzly at the Panther River cabin ate a 5 gallon pail of paint once. At his next stop, piles of white bear ####. :)

Grizz
 
hoocli said:
hey guys, would appreciate if you marked down some of these sightings on wildlifetracker.ca

Would be great :) don't have any grizzly sightings up just yet.
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I'd hesitate to see these marked due to poaching concerns, Grizzlies don't have the massive population of wolves. It would be a bit like mapping the locations for 7x7 elk, except if Elk were draw only in the one province you can hunt them, and protected everywhere else but the territories. It is also not practical as they roam hundreds of square kilometers, anyhow. Even people heading into territory with sightings expressly to view them, and within this group certainly armed, is not a healthy thing for the bears.

Anyhow it's not the most practical as I've seen the same bear a hundred kms from their position two days before, and then back again in two days, then a hundred kms in another direction days later. Alberta captured a Grizzly near Grande Prairie, and rereleased it near Keg River; it was back in the Grande Prairie area in a few days. That's 400kms.

If folks want to see Grizzlies, they only need to go for a walk in northern BC, or head to the Yukon. Here there are Grizzlies like the rest of the country has black bears. "Bear" in mind they are nowhere near as scary as folks think, usually they'll run faster than Black Bears. A sow with cubs is a different story.
 
Ardent said:
I'd hesitate to see these marked due to poaching concerns, Grizzlies don't have the massive population of wolves. It would be a bit like mapping the locations for 7x7 elk, except if Elk were draw only in the one province you can hunt them, and protected everywhere else but the territories. It is also not practical as they roam hundreds of square kilometers, anyhow. Even people heading into territory with sightings expressly to view them, and within this group certainly armed, is not a healthy thing for the bears.

Anyhow it's not the most practical as I've seen the same bear a hundred kms from their position two days before, and then back again in two days, then a hundred kms in another direction days later. Alberta captured a Grizzly near Grande Prairie, and rereleased it near Keg River; it was back in the Grande Prairie area in a few days. That's 400kms.

If folks want to see Grizzlies, they only need to go for a walk in northern BC, or head to the Yukon. Here there are Grizzlies like the rest of the country has black bears. "Bear" in mind they are nowhere near as scary as folks think, usually they'll run faster than Black Bears. A sow with cubs is a different story.
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Hey thanks for the feedback. The website isnt just a hunting resource but also a website for people to go to see where these animals are. I am working with researches and this data helps them also.

It has many uses not just one.
 
Fortunately knowing where they are is simple, western and northwestern Canada. There would be no benefit to digitizing Grizzly positions for the internet to peruse, researchers and anyone in the northwest already know where they are. Not everything needs to be computer tracked and logged, in fact, many of us in hunting really prefer to see that trend bucked. I can see the utility for a feral species like wild boar, but to put Grizzlies on the same site as the wild boar epidemic would be very short sighted. Until not long ago in history Grizzlies even roamed Saskatchewan's Cypress Hills, and parts of Northwestern Saskatchewan. They're long gone and extinct from Saskatchewan given their locations and ranges become well known. There is no secret about the healthy populations of bears in BC and the Yukon, they are literally all over northern BC and the Yukon, just about everywhere. The populations where mapping and plotting their locations could be anything but a "no kidding" as in posting that there are Grizzlies in northern BC, will not benefit anything, and potentially cause harm. All the "surprise" populations of Grizzlies many would be surprised to know exist in areas need is space, and people not knowing where they are. In the west we've had gall bladder poaching and other problems too, leave them be, some things are better left off the internet.
 
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