Here we go again! Ministry continues to ignore issue of bear overpopulation {OFAH}

A-zone said:
So why doesn't someone in Ontario organize a "Back to Nature" wilderness camping adventure for anti-firearms advocates?

You could take them for an authentic deep woods "Meet the Bears" adventure with lots of food (preferably littering their camp site), wine and cheese and party snacks (sans firearms, of course) and let them have a first hand experience with Ontario's furrier and toothy wildlife.

Since they don't need guns they could enjoy the warmer, playful side of Mother Nature's furry predators first hand.

Based on what I've seen on the Disney Channel (and they're never wrong!), that would be loads of fun and would do wonders in teaching the antis about how harmless bears really are!
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I Volunteer to lead these granola eating, birkinstock wearing Hippies to the Chapleau Game Preserve (one of the largest). We will be camping out around Lake Missinabi. If all works out they will never leave the city again. :D
 
A-zone said:
So why doesn't someone in Ontario organize a "Back to Nature" wilderness camping adventure for anti-firearms advocates?

You could take them for an authentic deep woods "Meet the Bears" adventure with lots of food (preferably littering their camp site), wine and cheese and party snacks (sans firearms, of course) and let them have a first hand experience with Ontario's furrier and toothy wildlife.

Since they don't need guns they could enjoy the warmer, playful side of Mother Nature's furry predators first hand.

Based on what I've seen on the Disney Channel (and they're never wrong!), that would be loads of fun and would do wonders in teaching the antis about how harmless bears really are!
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Black bears are relatively harmless. I and thousands of others have gone backcountry camping every summer for years with no gun and make it back alive. If I could take a handgun I would, but I can't, so I take other tools for just in case, the one between my ears being number one.

I also live in rural NW Ontario and have never had a bear problem (for very long, :D). Honestly, I have been living rural for 15 years, the skunks are more of a nuisance than the bears.
 
Honestly, I have been living rural for 15 years, the skunks are more of a nuisance than the bears.

You got it in one. There is no real problem that we notice rurally. Bears tend to stay to their "bear highways" that are more often than not, away from the houses. They'll roam from dump to dump, or from food source to food source. If they never see a human then they are happy.

Once you get to any half decent sized town or city in the North however then the bears are more problem in town than out of it. They're just huge assed raccoons, dumpster diving. Here if you want to take pictures of a bear you don't go wandering into the bush for a weekend, you drive up the city dump and wait for a sec for your eyes to pick the little furry fuzzballs out from the tires and garbage bags.

I don't know if there is a problem with bears affecting the moose population or the deer population, but it wouldn't surprise me. I do know that there are more and more bears in town every year though.

We've had three bear reports down the street where I work just this week alone.
 
I know a guy on the outskirts of town here who was in his hot tub this week (in his gazebo), He had his eyes closed and as he happens to open them he looks up to find a Black Bear standing up less than a foot away against the gazebo (the plastic see-through kind) scratching on it presumably to get in. After enough screaming the bear ends up leaving. I didn't ask but I think he had to change the water....
 
Kenny_G2 said:
Black bears are relatively harmless. I and thousands of others have gone backcountry camping every summer for years with no gun and make it back alive. If I could take a handgun I would, but I can't, so I take other tools for just in case, the one between my ears being number one.

I also live in rural NW Ontario and have never had a bear problem (for very long, :D). Honestly, I have been living rural for 15 years, the skunks are more of a nuisance than the bears.
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My guess is you're probably keeping a clean camp and not frying enough bacon in your tent.

AFAIC, this fantasy trip would call for a lot of tent-based bacon-frying as well as prep'ing the area with enough beaver carcasses to make it interesting for all concerned (especially the bears, of course)...;)
 
I'm 100% positive that bears are contibuting to the drop in moose populations. The bears follow moose around before they calf, they can smell that cow is ready to calf. Soon as it drops the bear isnt far behind to take it away. I'm baiting bears religiously and got atleast 7 more guys coming up after me to try their luck at a bear. If all 7 of them guys get a bear I'll be posting free bear hunts on here. WAAAAAY to many bears around.
 
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