3 Bears attack 2 Boy Scouts in the Wilds of New Jersey

[RokJok]

Coyotes have also recently been sighted around the DC area, inside the Beltway.

I always knew the day would come when the range of Coyote would infiltrate those hushed halls of power.

How ironically appropriate that Coyote, omnivore that he is, who has been for centuries eating, defecating, and fornicating his way out of the desert to roam all over this continent has come finally to roost and rest and deceive among his corpulent kin in their seats of power. He'll be well camoflaged among them in their suit & tie draped, cigar-smoking, scotch-swilling, leather club chair cradled bodies hibernating away the winter years of their lives in dim mahogany-lined dens dreaming visions of dominance that Coyote cast as shadows into their minds the day before they were born. If you don't believe me, look closely the next time you see a politician broadcasting a news conference. Behind the inscrutibly hypocritical grin, note the canine teeth that show so seldom... see the Trickster light shining behind the TV lights reflected in their eye.

I'd recognize that sneaky bastid anywhere.......


......especially when I find his face in my mirror.

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regarding bears in NJ and elsewhere:

The bears *are* adapting (to the best of their instinctual abilities) to the encroachments we've made into their territories with our expanding population centers. Our paved parking lots, garbage dumpsters, pets, golf courses, parks, vegetable gardens, roadways, etc are simply the new geography and larders from which they will try to fulfill the two things an animal does:
1) eat
2) procreate the species

When you leave the city behind, the rules of human civilization and socialization give way to a different law..... the law of tooth & fang..... eat or be eaten..... survival of the fittest.

As noted, when people don't leave the city themselves (or only to visit resorts where "camping" has a lot to do with room service ), they don't realize the shift of perspective needed to make the transition into the wilds.

 

[not2sharp]

I agree that trophy hunting does not make much sense and is wasteful of a resource.

I believe that the organized beating of little dimpled plastic balls with metal sticks, all over several acres of lawn is definitely a waste of land, materials, and effort.

Perhaps you would rather hire 5000 ranger Smith types, then allow hunters to carry out game management as a sport. The typical liberal/socialist solution; Kill off private enterprize and replace it with an oversized public program at the taxpayer's expense.

n2s

 

[fixer27]

The point I was making is that some hunters just want a trophy and eschew
the fact that some hunters really do hunt with the intent that this will be
supper tonight. I hunt for supper and don't understand why a hunter would
be so pleased with a set of antlers and not for they just found dinner.

 

[longbow50]

When you make an age old tradition into a money making venture, you tend to lose the knowledge, respect and traditions held and practiced by the hunters of old. What you end up with is a bunch of greenpeas trying for the chance to get the "RACK/BUCK OF A LIFETIME" and all they gotta do is buy this or that piece of gear that's endorsed by their favorite pro hunter as they watch his latest canned hunt on the TeeVee.

 

[fixer27]

I'm not going to rebuke a fellow hunter but the sitting in treestand over a
feed plot just looking for the biggest rack kinda doesn't sit well with me.
I like the kill it before you grill it idea and that includes most of my fish.
To me the entire idea is just not right, if you want a trophy join a bowling
league not hunt whatever spot your budget allows to find a trophy.