Rediculously large Grizzly.

It was hit by that truck and the guy picked it up with his crane and loaded it to take it to Grande Prairie. I always thought he was lucky it wasn't just knocked out and woke up as he loaded it. Lots of griz around Hy 40- have sen many there.
 
Grizz don't seem to be afraid of roads or trucks. I've seen a bigger Grizz North of Terrace, up the NASS valley. I was driving a lifted 4X4 Blazer, on 33" tires, which puts the hood at about 4'. This big bugger sauntered onto the road in front of me, and I absolutely positively had no urge to hit him with my truck. And he absolutely didn't have any fear of the Blazer.

He went by the Blazer a few feet in front , and I could still see a lot of his hump over the hood. It looked as if he took up about half of a logging road allowance... whatever that would be? ... while he was walking on all fours. He never stood up, but he certainly was the biggest Grizz I've ever seen [ and that includes a year in Jasper National Park ... where the garbage trucks don't stop when unloading at the dump, for fear a Grizz will crawl right in ].

Last Grizz I saw was on the connector between the PG road, and the Jasper road . This guy was warming himself in the afternoon sun, on the uphill bank beside the road. and didn't want to move when I stopped my Suzuki Samurai [ soft top ] about twenty yards away. We made eye contact, he sat there for about a minute, then he boogied up the hill. Glad he chos to go up instead of down on top of me. Can you say "Spam in a can?"

What was especially great about this Grizz was that he was colored exactly like a GIANT Siamese cat ... creamy body with dark paws and head.

This was the last Grizz I've seen up North ... drove all the way to Alaska and back a few years ago, and didn't see a single one. Lots of blacks, but not a single grizz in sight.

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Like I said before, it has to be an American bear. A Canadian would have put that bear in the box of the truck and covered it with a tarp. Only an American would drape the bear like that and disgrace the animal......
 
MC One Shot said:
Here is the news paper article that goes with those pictures. It is amazing how stories get changes around.:)


Archived Story
Pickup truck kills 700-pound griz near Lincoln
By JOHN CRAMER of the Missoulian

A 700-pound grizzly bear was hit and killed by a pickup truck Wednesday near Lincoln.

The fatality was another example of the threatened species expanding its range and population in western Montana, where the human population and highway traffic also are increasing.

The number of bears reported killed in road accidents so far this year - at least six grizzlies and 30 black bears - is unusually high for western Montana.


“More bears and more people and cars - those two things are colliding,” said Chris Servheen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery coordinator.

“These bears are pushing further and further out (of the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem) and reoccupying former territories,” Servheen said. “It's really tragic this one was killed in such a worthless way.”

Bears are most active in the fall as they fatten up for hibernation, but the more populous black bears - rather than grizzlies - are usually killed by vehicles this time of year, said Jamie Jonkel, a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks bear specialist.

Large grizzlies generally live in the eastern and northern parts of the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem, which is a recovery zone for the species between Highway 200 and Canada.

Fewer big grizzlies have been reported on the south end of the ecosystem, although they commonly inhabit the Blackfoot Valley where the bear was hit this week.

Habitat improvements and other protection efforts mean people will encounter grizzlies more often in areas where they haven't been common in years, said Mack Long, regional supervisor for Montana FWP.

A large grizzly was killed by a hunter last month in the northern Bitterroot Mountains, where the last confirmed sighting of the species came in 1946.

The bear killed Wednesday was hit about 3:45 a.m. on Highway 200 near the Lewis and Clark and Powell county lines.

It was a healthy 12-year-old male with 6 inches of fat and a hide that was 8 feet by 8 feet.

The bear had a numbered tattoo on its lip, evidence that it had been trapped in 1996 on the Rocky Mountain Front as part of a research study.

The tattoo, a radio collar the bear once wore and DNA samples helped biologists to track its movement.

The bear's last radio collar location was recorded in 1998 along the Rocky Mountain Front.

In 2004, a sample of the bear's hair was picked up on snags at bait stations and rub trees in the Lincoln area. The DNA evidence suggests the bear lived in the Lincoln area for at least three to four years.

FWP biologists said the bear may have been searching for uncontained garbage and grain and might have been responsible for several recent cabin, trailer and shed break-ins.

DNA samples taken from the break-in sites are being processed and the results will determine if it was the same bear.

Dale Manning of Custom Bird Works and the Big Game Connection taxidermy in Missoula recovered the hide for FWP, which will save it for educational purposes.

The driver wasn't injured in the accident. The pickup truck sustained heavy damage.

The bear died on impact.

State, federal and tribal wildlife, land management and transportation officials are studying ways to reduce bear fatalities on highways in western Montana.

One method is to install large box culverts and fencing along roads that encourage bears to pass under the highway rather than across it.

Several such culverts are being installed on U.S. Highway 93 north of Missoula, including one at Post Creek, where at least six grizzlies have been struck and killed in recent years.

Three grizzly bears have been killed by vehicles on Highway 200 between Lincoln and Bonner in the past four years.

Reporter John Cramer can be reached at 523-5259 or at JohnCramer@missoulian.com
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pulled from the one of the other threads on this topic...its from Montana:rolleyes:
 
huntinstuff said:
Like I said before, it has to be an American bear. A Canadian would have put that bear in the box of the truck and covered it with a tarp. Only an American would drape the bear like that and disgrace the animal......
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WTF??

the guy used a flat deck with a cherry picker, probably at the request of Dept of Hwys or DNR.

So he should have used a pickup with a box and loaded it by hand to satisfy politically correct Canadians who may see him on the net?

Its a dead bear scraped off the road, not Princess Diana for petes sake.
 
rgv said:
WTF??



Its a dead bear scraped off the road, not Princess Diana for petes sake.
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LMAO!!:DSecond thought,i'm thinking the news article might be bogus and the bear actually was CDn,cause we all know that an American would have rushed it off to the taxidermist and made up a story how he shot it at 5 yards while it was charging.:D
 
Nothing politically correct about my comment. It's a matter of respect for the animal. I believe Canadians have more respect than that.

Do you tie your dead deer to the hood of your dad's car and cruise mainstreet?.....

C'mon guys. Only some dipsh*t would haul a bear like that. "LOOK AT ME !!LOOK AT ME!!...............That's about as AMERICAN as you can get.
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rgv said:
WTF??

the guy used a flat deck with a cherry picker, probably at the request of Dept of Hwys or DNR.

So he should have used a pickup with a box and loaded it by hand to satisfy politically correct Canadians who may see him on the net?

Its a dead bear scraped off the road, not Princess Diana for petes sake.
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