Yes, it’s true. It is time to talk about bears again.
As many of you faithful readers out there know, we have talked about bears a good bit in the past. There are probably several reasons for this, including that bears are interesting creatures that quickly grab the attention of the homo sapiens crowd. Also, in my past life and the 36 years with the West Virginia DNR, I had a lot of experience with bears, and in a lot of different circumstances.
When I went to Pocahontas County back in the 1980s, I discovered there was a huge problem with black bears killing and eating sheep. In the summer, there was often a weekly occurrence of this that required long hours investigating the incident and then dealing with the problem bear. Most of it was not pretty.
There were also lots of days dealing with nuisance-type bears around houses, businesses and anywhere else a bear could go to become a pain in the posterior. While it is true that the bear was just being a bear and was usually just looking for something to eat, it was still a situation that your local DNR guy had to deal with. The point of all this is that the staff here at “Guns & Cornbread” (me) has some experience with bears.
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