Heh - "With wolves it's a little different. You'll want to be quiet when you stay the fuck away."Quote:
Originally Posted by Grape_Ape
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Heh - "With wolves it's a little different. You'll want to be quiet when you stay the fuck away."Quote:
Originally Posted by Grape_Ape
How about Frontier Days in Cheyenne with hair down to the middle of my shoulder blades back in the 70's. I got out of town fast as I could.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
East Coast PSA: Apparently sealfies are big enough to prompt this warning...
http://www.greateratlantic.fisheries...ith_seals.html
"I had them all out there steppin' and fetchin'Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Like their heads was on fire and their asses was catchin'
then I figured I had better go ahead and split before the cops got there"
I remember a NP Ranger telling us the story of a bull moose that charged a Suburban in rut. It broadsided them as they were driving through the park. Totalled a relatively new Suburban, bent the frame - that takes force
with an area taking in 1/4 of the province lots of the ologists have had encountersQuote:
Originally Posted by BCMountainHound
did you hear about the infamous ologist up here who had to use the bear spray, got it on his hands, then he was taking a piss so it gets on his pecker so being an ologist he used all that education to use the spagnum moss poltice to relieve pain
Tedski had an epic TR about some deer he saw in Colorado.
Stay away from Suburbans in rut. Everyone knows that.Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
bear spray in GNP is hilarious as long as it happens to someone else. Tourists "accidentally" spray it in gift shops, restaurants, traffic stops, ticket windows...
I haven't heard that tail, heh. But short term discomfort might have been worth the retirement shame of that story.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Yep, hate the stuff. Certainly has its place for some users, but after suffering its effects from several dumbfucks (and never in my experience actualIy employed for its intended purpose) discourage its use on my field tours. I'm a big guy, currently with a KBD, and project a certain calm yet stern demeanour - stressful encounters are few and far between given the exposure risk. Let the newbies/tourists be protected by their skunk totem, but away from me.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
That would have been one of many when he "bought out" of MOF research quite recently, all those old farts are leaving
Or in their face if into the breeze.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtngirl79
You don't piss into the wind
I saw 4 bull elk just down the road this evening
6 lions have been killed within a mile of our farm this spring. They feast on our sheep- we have taken a beating with losses [emoji53]Quote:
Originally Posted by baby bear
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Originally Posted by BCMountainHound
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Originally Posted by Benny Profane
There's a mtn lion that hangs out at our local mountain bike trail system - most recent sighting was at the Hello Kitty connector trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by steepconcrete
"Cuddles and kisses."Quote:
Originally Posted by Grape_Ape
You need one of theseQuote:
Originally Posted by steepconcrete
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Anatolian shepherd
More like three or four. We use Pyreneese, Anatolians, Akbash, Komondors and Sarplaninacs. We had two cool Kangal puppies a year ago that we were going to try until someone stole them. Probably should be in doggie stoke, but these guys just arrived to begin their new careers.
Yes we need dogs badly but only puppies seem to be available -> they would get killed quick.
Our temp solution is penning at night but they still sometimes come thru during the day
Your not reimbursed by the guberment for killed live stock??? What the fuck am I thinking of, as I thought that was the case?
O, I see, depends on the state and what animal did the killing.
As a breeder no I don't get reimbursed. If I only bought livestock to grow and then sell I could write it off... But as is I already deduct the cost of the animals (feed etc).
I could go to a inventory type of reporting but I think that would make me pay more in the end even with the losses. I'll worry about that next year when I'm doing taxes.
Finding mature guardian dogs that work is hard and expensive. We generally start with puppies, but it's always a guessing game on which ones will work, matching the right dogs together since they don't always get along and so on. We have currently have enough dogs that we can usually pair the pups with adults so its just not puppies with the sheep, and and they learn. We have an older Pyrenees that is great with the pups, but unfortunately I don't think he will be with us much longer. These guys are in a small pen with some dry ewe lambs to bond.
Maybe try guard Llamas? You don't have to train them apparently. http://modernfarmer.com/2014/02/got-...get-dog-llama/
I don't know if they will work on mountain lions, but for wolves the best thing is a donkey. Donkeys will bond with your sheep, and if a wolf comes around the donkey will stomp the shit out of the wolf. No joke.
Llamas protect against wolves and 'yotes, but Teh Googelz has many examples of cougar-on-llama assaultsQuote:
Originally Posted by iceman
This one happened 100 miles north of steepconcrete-cougar kills sheep, goats and two llamas.
http://koin.com/2015/09/18/cougar-ki...ckamas-county/
300 win mag
So you are saying our pain in the ass Pyrenees who is never-not guarding is worth thousands? Huh. Tempting, but probably not worth to get a divorce for selling the wife's dog, damn it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2bjenny
Maybe you should set up an airbnb for working dogs to visit ranches, that might fly with my wife. Ha.
Saw some Caribou chilling 2/3 of the way up a couloir in the Chic Chocs a few years back. ml242 and I were planning to reach a saddle below the summit via the couloir so we hung out a couple hundred meters away off to the side, had a snack and waited for them to move. After 15 minutes or so they straightlined the couloir at a full gallop. They all went down at the same time, so they must have known that the avy danger was low.
Not Yellowstone or concerning wildlife but somewhat related since it's gapers doing stupid shit in a National Park.
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1563/graffiti-at-grca.htm
I guess they should start going through phone books and start with the last name "Evans".Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
WTF is wrong with people? Now a man missing and presumed dead because he fell in to a hot spring at the Norris Geyser Basin?
just saw that too- insane
it's gotten exponentially out of hand recently
Maybe trying to rescue a bison calf?Quote:
Originally Posted by 2bjenny
Good. Hopefully he didn't have offspring.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2bjenny
Exactly, end that gene pool w/ such a good decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
Hey you! get out of the gene pool
#nolifeguardnecessary
There should be a sign at the entrances now: "Welcome to Yellowstone National Park. You're probably going to die, or at least be maimed. Don't be a dumbass. Enjoy your visit."
Yellowstone forced to shoot rogue tourists
National Park Service officials today confirmed reports of the shooting of two tourists in Yellowstone Park early this season. The shootings were authorized under a newly implemented policy to protect bears.
“I know this sort of thing upsets people,” said an assistant director. “But we had no choice in dealing with the problem. Human-grizzly encounters are simply too dangerous. We attempted relocation of both tourists, but they just returned the next season. The potential danger to bears had become too great, and we had to remove these tourists permanently.”
Apparently both tourists had been involved in a number of interactions with bears in the past. Park Service sources said the two had been relocated the previous season to what were believed to be their home ranges, New York City and Austin, Texas. Despite the distance, both managed to return to Wyoming this year, intimidating grizzlies attempting to catch fish after emerging from hibernation.
“Some may think tourists are ‘cute’ or ‘interesting,’” said one official. “But they can be very unpredictable and dangerous.”
She recounted attempts last year to keep one of the tourists, known to rangers as “Al,” from approaching a grizzly with his camera to take closeups.
“It was a close call for two of our rangers. Al suddenly swung his hiking stick at them. He caught one on the shoulder. They finally got a tranquilizer dart into him.”
The other tourist, know as “Sonja,” had been seen several times feeding marshmallows to bears. Attempts to remove her from the area resulted in deep fingernail scratches on the neck and arms of two ranger. She also called them nasty names, one recalled.
Acknowledging controversy over the policy of shooting tourists who return to areas habituated by bears, the assistant director said. “We can’t have it both ways. If we want our park safe for wildlife, then we have to do whatever is necessary to protect it.”
Meanwhile, the Congressional Subcommittee on National Parks, of the Interior Committee, announced an investigation into the policy authorizing the shootings. “It’s a real shame when something this unfortunate happens,” said the committee chairman. “It could have been avoided with more reasonable policies.” Hearings begin as soon as Congress returns from the summer recess.
(Note: The above “National Park press release” is literary sarcasm at its very best, and this piece was first run in the High Country News of Paonia, Colorado, in an April, 1991 edition. I received permission to reprint it. We ran it twice before but feel it is well worth another shot. Author of this perfect satire is Mark Flower of Longmont, Colorado. Many thanks again to Mark, and a special thanks to Betsy Marston, Editor of the High Country News)
G. George Ostrom is a national award-winning columnist for Hungry Horse News. He lives in Kalispell.
#HarambeMattersQuote:
Originally Posted by Alpinord