#2438613 - 07/08/11 04:39 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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What is the range of a Black Bear(Both sow and boar)?
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#2438727 - 07/08/11 07:51 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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What is the range of a Black Bear(Both sow and boar)?
Impossible to say because it all depends on habitat. In great habitat it could be 10 square miles, in poor habitat or in times of mast failures it could be 100 square miles. Also, young males have been known to go on tremendously long jaunts. A young male four years ago came off the Plateau and walked in a counterclockwise circle around Nashville and headed back to the Plateau. We tracked his progress all summer long. Females tend not to stray too far from their core area, most of the time because they have cubs in tow.
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#2438785 - 07/08/11 08:45 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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BGG, I hate to (well, kinda) bring this up, and might oughta ask Alan P, but what's the range of...er...panthers?
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#2438809 - 07/08/11 09:00 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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A few years back we had a young boar sighted in our sub-division! He was in the perimiter woods and headed east to west.
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#2438866 - 07/08/11 10:03 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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BGG, I hate to (well, kinda) bring this up, and might oughta ask Alan P, but what's the range of...er...panthers?
they walk the Hatchie River bottom from one end to the other.
my step-uncle farmed the bottoms near Vildo during the late 60s, 70s and early 80s and would see one every couple of years.
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#2438884 - 07/08/11 10:13 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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BGG, I hate to (well, kinda) bring this up, and might oughta ask Alan P, but what's the range of...er...panthers?
When we can confirm evidence of them you guys will probably be the first to know, because one of you will probably bring it to us. 
Unfortunately, although there have been hundreds of big cat sightings (brown, tan, black, yellow, and even orange with black stripes), no one has produced any hard evidence of them (yet).
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#2438894 - 07/08/11 10:18 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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BGG, I hate to (well, kinda) bring this up, and might oughta ask Alan P, but what's the range of...er...panthers?
When we can confirm evidence of them you guys will probably be the first to know, because one of you will probably bring it to us. Unfortunately, although there have been hundreds of big cat sightings (brown, tan, black, yellow, and even orange with black stripes), no one has produced any hard evidence of them (yet).
I'll try to get one for ya.  I'm hunting within 5 miles of my uncle's old place.
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#2438939 - 07/08/11 10:54 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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BGG, I hate to (well, kinda) bring this up, and might oughta ask Alan P, but what's the range of...er...panthers?
When we can confirm evidence of them you guys will probably be the first to know, because one of you will probably bring it to us. Unfortunately, although there have been hundreds of big cat sightings (brown, tan, black, yellow, and even orange with black stripes), no one has produced any hard evidence of them (yet).
I hope the orange and black one shows up first!!
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#2438989 - 07/08/11 11:22 AM
Re: Bear in Hardeman County?
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I want bears !!!!! Send him up to Dickson Co 
We need bears in West TN like casey anthony needs more children.
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I saw one study from quite a few years back (awhile ago) where they took a bear out of east TN and put it in west TN with a gps collar....and the bear had "migrated" all the way across the state back to east TN 
