Spotted on Texada Island.....

Hmatt said:
When I was a boy I remember seeing a black bear swimming across Shuswap lake. That’s not a small lake!
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I've waterskied right past black bear and swimming deer up in Seymour Arm and right off Copper Island a few times. We like to swim, why not bears?
 
Any question that rhymes with 'grizzly populations' (I'm speaking with a mountain/barren ground accent, some of you speak coastal) will have a group of 'advocates' who present data saying the bears are disappearing, they're gone, etc.

Interesting when you speak with people who live and work in the middle of where none of these bears are anymore, they're keeping a secret! My anecdotal data is probably 10yrs past it's date, but somebody here can update whether the ranchers and outfitters and oil guys and loggers and truck drivers still say the bears are all around, healthy, mostly reasonable and with twins every year, triplets once in a while? The rest of us just out there seeing them while off the clock don't count of course.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
When I visited Texada years back and asked a resident if there were bears on the island, he said that bears, wolves, and cougars have avoided the island due to the fresh water having a naturally occurring arsenic. He added that the only predatory land animal that could tolerate the arsenic levels in the water was the raccoon.
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We were there last summer and asked the same question and was told it was lead that killed them!
 
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Silverado said:
I've waterskied right past black bear and swimming deer up in Seymour Arm and right off Copper Island a few times. We like to swim, why not bears?
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Cougars too like to swin in the open waters of coastal BC.
There was a one filmed off the Sunshine Coast a few years back (not the clip I posted for informational and entertainment).

As for Bears....
 
there are videos of both deer and cougars climbing onto the swim grids of boats in the Georgia Strait for a rest during thier crossings. Might have even been one from last year featuring a young cougar.
 
Sir David Attenborough narrates lots of vids with tigers, lions, even leopards swimming, I wouldn't expect anything else from Puma Concolor. House cats are useless eaters, wild cats are top of food chain.
 
Silverado said:
Any question that rhymes with 'grizzly populations' (I'm speaking with a mountain/barren ground accent, some of you speak coastal) will have a group of 'advocates' who present data saying the bears are disappearing, they're gone, etc.

Interesting when you speak with people who live and work in the middle of where none of these bears are anymore, they're keeping a secret! My anecdotal data is probably 10yrs past it's date, but somebody here can update whether the ranchers and outfitters and oil guys and loggers and truck drivers still say the bears are all around, healthy, mostly reasonable and with twins every year, triplets once in a while? The rest of us just out there seeing them while off the clock don't count of course.
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The self proclaimed but unchallenged experts around here claim there are less than 25 Griz in this zone. Yet they Helo'd one almost 1500 KM away from here (an effort to save a doomed problem bear) and it was back in it's own area, within two weeks. Destroyed shortly afterwards while trying to break in to an old ladies trailer home. Which pretty much tells me, counting the grizzly's in a defined 'zone', is a game for the willfully stupid to play, as they are very capable of covering very much larger distances, than are supposedly the 'home range' areas as are currently defined.
 
IronNoggin said:

First ever grizzly bear sow and cubs spotted officially on Vancouver Island​

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...pher-records-grizzly-bear-cubs-play-fighting/

‘Pretty cool to see’: Vancouver Island photographer records grizzly bear cubs play-fighting​

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...pher-records-grizzly-bear-cubs-play-fighting/
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This article is so stupid. Classic CTV.
By that I mean sensationalist and unresearched crap.
As a Sayward resident and long time wilderness enthusiast on VI, there is nothing new about G bear over here.
They have been here off and on since the last ice age.
OLD NEWS!!
 
Beeron said:
This article is so stupid. Classic CTV.
By that I mean sensationalist and unresearched crap.
As a Sayward resident and long time wilderness enthusiast on VI, there is nothing new about G bear over here.
They have been here off and on since the last ice age.
OLD NEWS!!
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Might have been old news to you, but maybe New News to someone in Yorkton Sask...
The reporting does have something to be desired... and not just on reporting on wildlife or firearms.
It is in everything they pretend to be experts on and how to report.
Wab Kinew called out a reporter the other day on the Flin Flon Man. wild fire ...
 
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