Bears!

[BigJim]

Maybe I was thinking of grizzly bear scat.

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[kc9gbo]

Haha!! I saw that at a local “golf course” they had that posted on their wall only it was warning golfers, when I saw this thread I thought of that right away!

[Grandma & Grandpa]

I just showed this funny sign to our daughter. She says she was southbound on I-94 a couple of weeks ago, and saw a black bear alongside the highway. She was a few miles north of Tomah, and right by a business with a name similar to “The Three Bears”. I asked if it was a stuffed advertising bear, but apparently not, because it ran off into the woods.

About the same time, one was photographed in a back yard about a mile from our home here in Waupaca. That made the local paper, and I’m told it was covered on the Channel 5 news and in the Appleton Post Crescent.

cYa, Jim

[Vegas Gamblers]

The police currently have a black bear cornered in a tree in Port Washington and are waiting the arrival of the DNR to tranquilize and move him north of Hwy 64

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Well, sounds like they take a more reasoned approach than happened here a year ago, when one was treed in a park, they came in and killed it out of the tree in front of little kids and everything.

Evacuate the park, move the bear along. They claimed not to have access to a tranq gun, but the Humane Society says they have one and it would have simply taken the phone call. I think they have a better set of guidelines now. There was a lot of public outcry when this happened.

As an aside…..we did a wonderful cache in the Black River Forest area this afternoon, and spotted a couple piles of bear scat. No flannel bits or bells, so must have been black bear!

[Barry Butrymowicz]

@Vegas Gamblers wrote:

The police currently have a black bear cornered in a tree in Port Washington and are waiting the arrival of the DNR to tranquilize and move him north of Hwy 64

The DNR can drop him off in my yard, “they taste like chicken”

[Vegas Gamblers]

@sweetlife wrote:

@Vegas Gamblers wrote:

The police currently have a black bear cornered in a tree in Port Washington and are waiting the arrival of the DNR to tranquilize and move him north of Hwy 64

The DNR can drop him off in my yard, “they taste like chicken”

😆

[jar42]

I just had a pair of black bear cubs pop up on the road in front of me @ 11:20 this morning.
I was on Cth. P just north of Ratland at the time. As I got nearer they ran back toward the woods. Maybe they were trying to lure a Labrat to momma.

[sandlanders]

@jar42 wrote:

I just had a pair of black bear cubs pop up on the road in front of me @ 11:20 this morning.
I was on Cth. P just north of Ratland at the time. As I got nearer they ran back toward the woods. Maybe they were trying to lure a Labrat to momma.

😯 😯 😯
Another reason we’re glad to be through with our tent camping trip near there right now! The Wild Side is getting too wild for us! 😯 😉

[labrat_wr]

@jar42 wrote:

I just had a pair of black bear cubs pop up on the road in front of me @ 11:20 this morning.
I was on Cth. P just north of Ratland at the time. As I got nearer they ran back toward the woods. Maybe they were trying to lure a Labrat to momma.

AAHHGGHH! where on “P”????

not afraid of cats but bears are a different story. Walking in the woods I would rather spot the adult than the cubs…
I was actually thinking about bears as I was hiking out to The Periodic Table of Caches: Z=29 GC2B9GF

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[jar42]

@labrat_wr wrote:

@jar42 wrote:

I just had a pair of black bear cubs pop up on the road in front of me @ 11:20 this morning.
I was on Cth. P just north of Ratland at the time. As I got nearer they ran back toward the woods. Maybe they were trying to lure a Labrat to momma.

AAHHGGHH! where on “P”????

not afraid of cats but bears are a different story. Walking in the woods I would rather spot the adult than the cubs…
I was actually thinking about bears as I was hiking out to The Periodic Table of Caches: Z=29 GC2B9GF

About a half mile East of AA

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Would have loved to have seen those…from a safe distance. We’ve been less likely to hike in the brush (although we have lapses in judgement, as some at the event yesterday noted), mostly cause it’s just tough with the brush, thorns and bugs, but also because many of those thorns are full of yummy berries….which means….bears could be nearby.

I do my best to eat as many as possible to keep the bears away from caches, though. 🙄

[elfdoctors]

Bears taste more like beef than chicken.

If you can get meat from a reasonably young bear (1-2 years old), the meat is decidedly better than similar cuts of beef (and worlds better than venison). Unfortunately usually the only bear meat you are likely to be offered is from a big 400-600 boar which has fat marbled throughout and a much more gamy flavor.

[huggybear2u]

When I was caching in the Leathercamp a couple years ago I saw a guy that was baiting a big female with five cubs. He had just seen them by the bait right where I had to go past to get back to the truck. He said the only tree big enough for the cubs to climb was right next to him and up they went. He had a pistol on his side so I asked him to walk with me. After about a quarter mile he headed back the other way to his truck.

[furfool]

@elfdoctors wrote:

Bears taste more like beef than chicken.

If you can get meat from a reasonably young bear (1-2 years old), the meat is decidedly better than similar cuts of beef (and worlds better than venison). Unfortunately usually the only bear meat you are likely to be offered is from a big 400-600 boar which has fat marbled throughout and a much more gamy flavor.

My first one was a young one. First fall on his own. Best meat I ever had in my life. My second one was a year older and thought it was very good, there was no comparison though. One year made quite a difference.

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