Well I was really just kidding, but of course every time I see the multitude of bears in your yard I can't help but think of Sulo Karjalainen, the Bearman of Finland. I am completely sure that you could easily be his equal, as "The Bearman of Beartown, PA", and I'm equally sure that you would not. Not ever. — I completely understand and respect your goal of keeping them as wild as you can. I am 100% in agreement with that. — Growing up (spending every summer) on my grandparents' dairy farm homestead in Bruce Crossing, MI I learned respect for the wild critters in the neighborhood. Yes my uncles were subsistence hunters, but with great respect for mother nature's critters. Maybe it wasn't bears so much, but many's the time Uncle Frank and I walked up to the north end of Larson road, and along the two-track then 'single-track' then deer trail in da bush further beyond. On each such trip, any number of wild birds would routinely fly up and fearlessly perch on Uncle Frank's shoulder, and eat from his hand.
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<br>I live in a rather remote section, I am more or less in the middle of about 4000+ acres of land, <br> My town is 1 road, and a dead end, and has about 30 homes, so, yes bears are in OUR town, and once in a while will venture off into other small towns near by, and like any place these days, once in a while a bear will venture into a larger town and make the local TV news and local papers!(and YES a few times they been bears that come to my place too LOL, I have helped trap and relocate them, to make people happy, <br>typically the bears show back up later on any how,(we have moved some up to a 150 miles away only to have them back a few weeks later) but moving them seems to make folks happy, so the state game dept does so to keep the peace between both bears and people best they can!<br>People are very easy to forget the FACT< that bears lived in many places there being forced out of due to human expansion that is happening so many places now a days! so more and more encounters will happen!<br><br>However, MY area is rather remote for things, but due to human expansion, there are very few places that bears don't encounter humans on a much more regular basis!(average black bear has about a 20 square mile home range, so NOT many laces left that size that DON"T have people living in anymore in MOST states)<br>Bears have also found, that HUMANS are easy source's of food,which can DRAW them, as bears follow there noses to survive!<br>and worse yet maybe, Typically when one does show up in a persons yard or a town they get all excited and it seems to either cause Folks to FEAR them making lots of calls to law enforcement/game dept. , or worse yet, TRY and feed them to get pictures/video's, (this is a main reason many bears learn humans are sources of food, folks START to feed them thinking its COOL or?? to see a bear and FEED a bear, and the bear returns again and again,having been taught people feed me mind sets! , BUT what typically happens here is, the HUMANS that found it so cool and fun to feed a bear, the FUN wears off, and they STOP feeding bear, and well, bear doesn't know WHY< and some will try and SELF feed , be it raid there trash, break in to homes and so, and these people will be the first one's to complain and BLAME the bear! when it was THEM that caused the problems there having, and in the way things work out, the bear is the one that suffers, due to having been taught a BAD habit !<br><br>so, again, I am rather lucky here , almost all residents here, and I say ALMOST, are very welcome to bears and wildlife, heck most of us here go thru great costs and work to plant and grow our lands to be a haven for wildlife so we can enjoy seeing them year round,<br> and have learned how to co exist with them! if not strive with them!<br> its not hard if one is willing to take needed extra steps to get along.<br><br> and I say MOST residents here, as of the past few yrs, several of the long time residents have passed away, and seems the new owners of a few places here are NOT very wildlife friendly folks,<br><br>I will never ever understand why anyone that would MOVE into the woods more or less, would and some how expect there to NOT be any wild life, there!<br> but a few of the newest residents here are on the phone with local game warden regularly complaining about deer, rabbits squirrels and yes BEARS, pretty much any wild animal MINUS there dog! <br>being in there yard and town, seems they expect wildlife to NOT live where they do, <br>as it seems they wanted to live in the woods that don't have any wildlife and are finding out that isn;t the case!<br><br>SO< things here are changing sadly <br>as they say I guess, NEW neighbors can be GOOD or BAD!HAHA!<br><br><br>
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