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Looks like Fentress Co. is getting a bear season!
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<blockquote data-quote="blountcountyboy" data-source="post: 2579530" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>And why exactly do some of yall think I should have to spend my hard earned money to protect my place from bears? <u>Why should I have to change for them?</u> WE didnt want them here in the first freaking place, and that was CLEARLY known. Like Im going to spend HUNDREDS to protect my place from bear damage all because some "agency" decided it would be a good idea to put more here. I dont care if it was the feds or the TWRA that reintroduced them. The TWRA has the power to introduce the season that they were supposed to introduce 6 YEARS AGO, and they need to do that. We have given them PLENTY of time, 6 extra years. </p><p></p><p>This is exactly what I was talking about. God forbid someone have to CHANGE to make room for an animal that causes the boogy man syndrome to run wild and doesn't allow good sound managment practices to take root. </p><p></p><p>The bear have most likely been coming and going through this county as well as MANY others for years even before the release in BSF with VERY few people ever knowing they were there. Young bears will travel MILES trying to find habit that suits their needs when they leave their mother. </p><p></p><p>Once you get tired of cleaning up trashed bird feeders and garbage cans you start putting them up, get a dog, or call TWRA to trap it and move it. Coons get into garbage and I don't hear people wanting them eradicated and ALOT of them were "released". </p><p></p><p>It is human nature to fear the unknown, and what lurks in the shadows at night. Does my imagination run wild on me from time to time while out alone at night when I know bears are present? Sure, but it's only my imagination and I pull up my big boy panties and go on. </p><p></p><p><u><strong>I hope that you guys can come to a suitable solution for both the people and the bears but, going full bore on a killing spree isn't the solution. Manage them and learn to live along side them and will enjoy a sustainable hunting population for years to come.</strong></u></p><p></p><p>As far as South Cherokee goes... That is the NFS and I don't care if they put in food plots but they would be nice. I just wish that they would stop caving to the tree hugging hippies and start cutting some timber. Sure those big old growth forests are pretty to look at but, when the only thing for an animal (all animals) to eat is dependant on the acorn crop and the lack there of the animal population falls because they go else where. There is no under story for browsing. I would like to see some timber cutting, burning and open up the understory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blountcountyboy, post: 2579530, member: 1883"] And why exactly do some of yall think I should have to spend my hard earned money to protect my place from bears? [u]Why should I have to change for them?[/u] WE didnt want them here in the first freaking place, and that was CLEARLY known. Like Im going to spend HUNDREDS to protect my place from bear damage all because some "agency" decided it would be a good idea to put more here. I dont care if it was the feds or the TWRA that reintroduced them. The TWRA has the power to introduce the season that they were supposed to introduce 6 YEARS AGO, and they need to do that. We have given them PLENTY of time, 6 extra years. This is exactly what I was talking about. God forbid someone have to CHANGE to make room for an animal that causes the boogy man syndrome to run wild and doesn't allow good sound managment practices to take root. The bear have most likely been coming and going through this county as well as MANY others for years even before the release in BSF with VERY few people ever knowing they were there. Young bears will travel MILES trying to find habit that suits their needs when they leave their mother. Once you get tired of cleaning up trashed bird feeders and garbage cans you start putting them up, get a dog, or call TWRA to trap it and move it. Coons get into garbage and I don't hear people wanting them eradicated and ALOT of them were "released". It is human nature to fear the unknown, and what lurks in the shadows at night. Does my imagination run wild on me from time to time while out alone at night when I know bears are present? Sure, but it's only my imagination and I pull up my big boy panties and go on. [u][b]I hope that you guys can come to a suitable solution for both the people and the bears but, going full bore on a killing spree isn't the solution. Manage them and learn to live along side them and will enjoy a sustainable hunting population for years to come.[/b][/u] As far as South Cherokee goes... That is the NFS and I don't care if they put in food plots but they would be nice. I just wish that they would stop caving to the tree hugging hippies and start cutting some timber. Sure those big old growth forests are pretty to look at but, when the only thing for an animal (all animals) to eat is dependant on the acorn crop and the lack there of the animal population falls because they go else where. There is no under story for browsing. I would like to see some timber cutting, burning and open up the understory. [/QUOTE]
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