Grizzly Bear issue of Wyoming Wildlife

[Colorado Cowboy]

Got my December issue of Wyoming Wildlife yesterday. It is totally devoted to the Grizzly Bear. Really a lot of information. I have not read it completely, but there are 47 pages with lots of pictures, lots I sure didn't know.

Should be mandatory for Colorado hunters reading, something we can expect down the road.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Just found out it is available online for free.

 

[Bonecollector]

I will have to check this out later today. Thanks cowboy

 

[mallardsx2]

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"Dang man, how did you get those terrible looking scars?"
"Well, I was doing some wildlife viewing with friends when a grizzly attacked me for no reason..."

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

There are some pretty wild pictures in the issue.

 

[mallardsx2]

Unrelated, but I personally took this picture of this "Pet" Siberian brown bear cub that escaped from a local enclosure and reeked havoc with our workers for a few hours and this guy was VERY lucky this little bastard didn't get a hold of him. I couldn't have picked a better moment to hit the go button on the cell phone....lol

In total that little sucker chewed up 4 buggy seats, 2 pairs of sunglasses and a hard hat before its owners got it captured and put back in its cage....

How this guy escaped stitches remains a mystery to me but the side of my truck got scratched all to hell when he jumped into my truck bed and the bear tried to climb the side of my truck....

I told the guy not to get out of his truck and for the record I was rooting for the bear.....

 

[Winchester]

In the late 80s I was stationed in Alaska near Fairbanks with the Army and flying helicopters at the time. Our Aviation unit agreed to assist the Dept of Fish and Game with a grizzly bear study. They were darting grizzlies and putting radio collars on them to track their movements. So another Captain and I would fly a Huey out with a couple of their people in the back and one with a dart gun. We had to fly low enough to get within about 5 feet of a bear, running like a bat outta hell, so our rotorwash wouldn’t mess up the flying dart too much. When we got close enough the guy would lean out of the cargo door (wearing a harness) and dart the grizzly and then we’d land so they could process it and put on a collar.

One time we came upon a sow that had already been processed/collared and she took off like a scalded dog when she heard the helicopter. She had young triplets with her but they couldn’t keep up and she actually left her triplets behind. We decided to let her go and dart the triplets.

Long story short we darted all 3 within close proximity and I landed. They begin to process all 3 cubs simultaneously. The thing was they weren’t used to processing three bears at a time so by the time they were getting done it had taken longer than normal. A couple of the guys decided to take a group photo with the cubs and they sat down next to them. Unfortunately it took so long to process them that the drug was wearing off and one of the cubs we got his head around enough to get one guys knee in his mouth and chewed on it pretty hard. Tore him him pretty good.

We got outta there after that. When I took off we could see the sow of the other side of a hill waiting to go round up her cubs.

 

[mallardsx2]

OUCH^^