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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
It is not so unreal the bears are moving east. Grizzlies used to range all the way to Manitoba so they have a ways to expand to their historical range limits. And grizzlies were along the north Saskatchewan river too. Back in the day...Two men were killed by a grizzly along the NSR at a place still named Grizzly Bear Coulee, east of Edmonton.
I mentioned in another thread that in 1871 Hudson Bay Company traders took in 750 grizzly bear skins in the one season...just at Cypress Hills. Most were summer pelts shot from horseback. More bears in the Cypress area were shot that year and were traded to other traders. HBC also took in 1500 elk hides from the Cypress hills that year.
So logic might suggest as the prairie elk herds are expanded the grizzly will follow.
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Entirely so, as bear numbers increase in the West country, pressure is going to push them further east. Some would call that a success story, but not likely what we're going to hear from the whining "conservationists".
Grizz
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written in 1969
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