Bear Attacks: The Deadly Truth
by James Gary Shelton
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Author: James Gary SheltonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01
ISBN: 0969809913
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Pallister Publishing
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Book Review: Some People Just Don't Get It!
Summary: 5 Stars
Gary is not a biologist writing a textbook for a course at a university.If you want a fairy tale tree hugging earth first view read something else. If you want a reality based this is how it is in the world where people have to live and survive in READ THESE BOOKS. They just might save your life or the life of someone you love! He is a man who has experience and knowledge in actual real life as well as interviewed others who have experienced what to them at the time must have been like "Hell on Earth". It's easy for some armchair experts to criticize a man that has spent most of his life in the field and not with his nose stuck in some test tube or book. He has done more to preserve the bears of which he writes than the majority of his critics will ever do, as their talk is cheap compared to his actions and the results of his accomplishments. James Gary Shelton wants bears to have places and room to be bears but when government agencies try to make those places where human population exists then both the people and bears lose because sooner or latter there will be human/bear conflict which results in the bear being killed. Some government agencies relocate problem bears without proper consideration as to the consequences. What was the bear guilty of should play a major role as to where or if it should be relocated. Would you relocate a bear that had been seen repeatedly stalking children as prey? Agencies need to investigate problem bear reports more thoroughly. This problem is due to many problems of under staffing, under funding, and in some cases down right negligence. The result can and has resulted in the needless mauling or death of adults and children with resultant death of the bears. A team effort to teach problem bears to avoid humans and human use areas by the use of such methods such as, bear bangers, rubber bullets, and even a pair of Karelian Bear Dogs nipping at the bears behind can prove effective at least on some of the bears saving both humans and bears. Prevention is best but unfortunately as Gary points out governments both in Canada and in the USA tend to ignore a problem until it bites them so badly they can't hide it any longer. Then who do you think loses? Give the man a break; a helping hand and just maybe such a catastrophe can be avoided! I have never had to kill a bear so far in my life but I have experienced a black bear kill a friend of mine. Personally I don't hate bears but respect them for who they are. Bears have individual personalities just as humans do. That means some bears are not safe to be around just as some humans are not safe to be around and both may have to suffer the same fate. That is Reality!
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