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If you’re in the mountains

I’d advise taking a gun:

Bears have killed two family dogs in mountain residential areas, and wildlife officials warn more attacks could be coming.

They say recent cold weather has hurt the bears’ food supply, and that development is creeping into undeveloped land where bears live.

In Asheville this past Sunday night, a mother black bear killed a dog that had been let out in the back yard around 11:00 p.m. The bear had cubs nearby.

Developers are starting to build on mountain land about a mile away, so bears are looking for food from different sources.

Hungry bears are not to be trifled with. Of course, packing in parks is illegal but that’s looking to change.

Bears seem awful ornery lately.

8 Responses to “If you’re in the mountains”

  1. Sebastian Says:

    Park and national forest restrictions are a reason I don’t hike/camp much in TN. I hope they can be gotten rid of.

  2. Sebastian-PGP Says:

    A good friend of mine is from Alaska. She said that going out in the wild there unarmed isn’t even a thought. It’s like getting in your car and not wearing a seatbelt as you fly down the highway.

    Why should the wild parts of the lower 48 be any different?

    It’s no surprise that we’re coming into contact with predators more often, as suburbia spreads westward (and eastward from the left coast), we’re going to get closer to where the wild things are. People have this romantic idea that wild animals aren’t supposed to be…well,…wild.

  3. straightarrow Says:

    Anybody dumb enough to go unarmed in wilderness country, no matter the law, deserves to be eaten by dumb (but not as dumb) animals.

  4. Justin Says:

    Anybody dumb enough to go unarmed in wilderness country, no matter the law, deserves to be eaten by dumb (but not as dumb) animals.

    Thats a really stupid fucking comment. I have hiked for over 15 years all over the Smokey Mtns and haven’t been “eaten” by a bear or assaulted by some fucking nutjob while in the Park. What an asinine comment…

  5. straightarrow Says:

    Justin, as a friend of mine used to say “If you got luck, shit will do for brains.”

    You have been lucky. If you ever do meet up with a bear, convince him how asinine I am, if you have time, before he eats you.

    Sorry you feel so insulted,but I have no patience with self-inflicted stupidity.

  6. #9 Says:

    SA, Justin is our part of our resident liberal counter balance. It’s all part of the circle of life. I always welcome Justin’s comments. He always makes my case better than I can. Of course where he blogs in progressiveville there is no counter balance. Only the sound of echoes of agreement.

    No way I would ever be unprepared in the wilderness regardless of the law. Bears don’t care about the law. I would never wish any wild animal harm, but going into back country without the proper equipment is just foolish.

  7. SayUncle Says:

    justin is pretty far from liberal. he’s an angry former conservative.

  8. #9 Says:

    I was thinking of JustinB. The “What an asinine comment…” threw me. Wrong Justin.

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