first bad timing, second the system that is working with him for quota on grizzly bear hunting. his quota: is 10 sow and 27 boars in total for his area ... not exactly what he is saying. third im sorry but few days ago we had a meeting on public management on grizzly hunting and did not hear anything from any outfitters including him.
fourth why i will rely on GO to tell us how many bears are roaming because he is the only hunting, no benefit for the local hunters and fifth where and whom did Jim contact about the dangerous bear ... and none sisxth the less why he didnt gave one of his guide a tag to kill that so dangerous bear.
again i call that dancing on graves and little low class but that is just me.
he is on a campaign good for him but locals may not agree and im a bear hunter.
Unfortunately Shockey's views would not be given mainstream media coverage if it were not for death of this woman and baby.
The GO has, probably, a better idea of how many bears are wandering around than the average hunter. Guaranteed he has a better idea than the antis in the city and those sitting in their cushy offices in Victoria. So yes, his views on population should carry some weight.
You say he is misleading about his quota. That may be true, I don't know. But even if it were untrue, the numerous facts he states, some of which I quoted, remain relevant and accurate.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1799056-future-of-Yukon-grizzly-hunting-is-on
havwe a read where outfitters didnt bother to be there ... im not anti nor agaisnt bear hunting but using some deaths to push their agenda well that is maybe just me but something is wrong ...
I too was invited to these kinds of discussions, in my capacity as a director of a Wildlife Association, and did not attend. I refused to attend and urged others to do so because it was a ruse to provide legitimacy to a "consultation" process that was BS from the get-go. Look at the Key references listed in the draft Conservation Plan you linked. You think this represents a scientific and legitimate approach?
Wind River Bear Institute - sounds like a place of higher learning, right? It is, in fact, their mission is the effective training and use of Karelian Bear Dogs, is to
reduce human-caused bear mortality and conflicts worldwide to ensure the continued survival of all species of bears for future generations.
Southern Lakes Wildlife Co-ordinating Committee - The SLWCC is comprised of 6 First Nation Governments.
COSEWIC - an independent advisory panel to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada that meets twice a year to assess the status of wildlife species at risk of extinction. Members are wildlife biology experts from academia, government, non-governmental organizations and the private sector
responsible for designating wildlife species in danger of disappearing from Canada.
Papers by Scott Slocombe, environmentalist, including - Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience, which starts off with the following quote:
All I know is respect for bear. When I meet up a bear face to face in the bush, we talk to him and he look at us and pretty soon be turning away. We tell him we live on our own, this is my trail I travel on, for some day for myself. And you do the same out there where you make your living, you can just go ‘round there. Make your own living. Look at him for a little while he’ll go away. But if they charge us, then we will got no choice but shooting him... we don’t shoot him for fun or anything like that. Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Elder, 19 July 2004.
This does not sound like a fair and balanced approach. Why lend credibility when there is such bias evident?
Very sad, but you go out in the bush trap and kill as many things as you can for money. Nature does it's own fighting back and kills you for survival.
So the fix here is to encroach on their territory even more, complain they are there and cull them? Humans think far to highly of themselves. Destroy all nature, go find more nature, get mad nature doesn't bow to your greatness destroy that nature...
Keep seeing ''problem bear", the bear is trying to live in the last place it has left. Humans come and kill everything they can for profit and the bear is the problem in this situation? Again, superiority complex...
I am far from anti-hunting but poop goes both ways and you can't play the game without losing sometimes...
I suspect this person is trolling.
