• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    As an avid backpacker, I’m not stoked about the plan to reintroduce brown bears to my state.

    I do a lot of hiking as well, and yes brown bears are definitely more of a pucker your b-hole scenario. But for the most part as long as you don’t sneak up on one accidentally or accidentally get between the bear and the cubs, they’re fairly harmless. Ya just gotta have something that makes some noise when you’re hiking, I have buddies that just strap a cow bell on their packs.

    It would still be pretty rare for one to outright attack a full grown person, they are generally aware that peeps be dangerous.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The problem with that is then you don’t see all of the other wildlife that is fun to come across while in the wilderness. You won’t have any more random deer or racoon sightings, since everything will run from your bell. Obviously it’s better to be safer, but I’m generally pretty happy that we don’t have fearless apex predators in our forests. We have a few apex predators with the black bear, grey wolf, and cougar, but those are all very wary of humans, and generally not a threat like the brown bear would be.

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        5 months ago

        That’s fair, though it doesn’t seem to bother the little critters like rabbits or racoons for some reason. But yeah, it’ll def make the deer scamper off.

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          5 months ago

          I think it’s because their strategy for avoiding predators is “Stay in trees or hide in holes” rather than “Run away”