Originally Posted by rusnak (Post 10778000)

How do you kick all of the people out of the L.A. basin? I'd like to see more cougars and fewer hobos but OTOH, there are already too many lizards. Maybe we just spray paint the bums golden and call it good.

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10778104)

I was, of course, being facetious. For the most part, anyway.

There are plenty of truly wild places left in California. That may be hard to grasp from somewhere like the L.A. basin, the Bay Area, and other large population centers, but but a few days spent up north in places like Humboldt County, or up in the Sierra Nevada range, and places like that would demonstrate just how much wilderness remains in California. These areas would be eminently suitable for a large scale reintroduction of the Golden Bear.
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Originally Posted by afterburn 549 (Post 10778176)

Bear are herbivores, perhaps with enough compost in the vegans they might be appetizing?


EWwwwwwww

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 10778200)

Bears are generally omnivores, except for polar bears and bamboo specialists

Lack of moths is a big factor in grizzly bear declines

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 10778579)

I suspect if you had enough cougars, you'd have fewer hobos. I think that problem would "take care of itself."

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 10778668)

Pandas eat bamboo.

Originally Posted by legion (Post 10778688)

Pandas are not bears. SmileWavy

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10777861)

I am absolutely 100% behind the re-introduction of the native California "golden bear". I believe the last one verified there was probably late 19th century. It's an absolute crime, what mankind has done to them, eradicating them from their natural haunts. It's high time they are restored across their historic range. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our modern day wildlife organizations - the same ones that have put so much effort into, for example, wolf recovery - are not all over this. It seems like an obvious "next step" towards restoring the natural balance of the State of California.

Originally Posted by bickyd (Post 10778624)

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I get to work in very remote places. this is the northern west coast of BC. If i knew how to post a vid here, I have one of a very large black grizzly from fairly close. like 20 feet close. the black bears here live on the slopes because if they get caught in the valley they are eaten. SmileWavy

Originally Posted by legion (Post 10778688)

Pandas are not bears. SmileWavy