“To protect Idaho's hunting and fishing heritage. To fight against all legal and legislative attempts by the animal rights and anti-gun organizations who are attempting to take away our rights and freedoms under the constitution of the United States Of America. To hold all Government and State Agencies who are stewards of our Wildlife accountable and ensure that science is used as the primary role for our Wildlife management."

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Introduction by Jim Beers:

TO THE FOLLOWING:

Ranchers, Farmers, Hikers, Dog Owners, Dog Users, Hunters, Fishermen, Trappers, Canoeists, Mountain Bikers, Dog Walkers, Campers, School Bus Riders, Neighbors Within Walking Distance, Sheep Herders, Rural Residents, Rural Kids With Outdoor Chores, Rural Mailbox Checkers, Birdwatchers, Woodcutters, & Others Too Numerous to List

Subject:  A Grizzly Bear letter from an Alaskan Biologist beginning “Good Morning”.

The following letter describes a very life-threatening incident between two Alaskan duck hunters and a grizzly bear doing exactly what grizzly bears do 24/7.

Please forget for a moment whether you are a duck hunter or hate duck hunters and duck hunting.

The federal government has and is forcibly increased grizzly bear numbers and vastly increased the range of grizzly bears in the Upper Rockies.  There is no end in sight to this awful and Un-Constitutional federal program.  Grizzly bears are and will for the foreseeable future be under federal protection.  Native Americans killing a grizzly bear to steal their claws and then absconding and denying killing a grizzly are fined less than a speeding ticket while Caucasian rural fathers killing one of three grizzlies in his yard with children present is threatened with imprisonment, enormous fines, and a felony that will deny him both voting and gun rights.

\It is a simple truism of Wildlife (forgive the term) Management that the more animals you have in any given area, the more interactions with humans and human habitations occur.  Hence, October is the month when the most animals of any wild species (from mice and marmots to foxes, pheasants, and grizzly bears) and when most wildlife-related auto accidents occur.  Hungry animal/human incidents (wolves, coyotes, foxes, etc.) occur in winter but grizzly bears are usually hibernating.

Grizzly bears are and always have been bold, unpredictable, and very dangerous to humans.  As their numbers and range increases, incidents like that described below will not only occur: they will increase and they are and will not be amenable to all the “remove them to ‘The Wilderness’” and “Pepper Spray”/”Roll up in a ball”/ “Puff-up” BS in the world.

As people are injured and/or die, remember how predictable it was and is.  Consider who (Radical Organizations/Bureaucrats/”Scientists”/Politicians, etc.) has done it.  As long as there is an Endangered Species Act usurping State and Local government regarding wild animals this inevitable carnage will occur and increase as grizzly bears increase and wild food disappears.  Unlike all the twaddle about “Mother Nature” and the “Balance of Nature” making the wolves and grizzly bears go “elsewhere” or “decrease” (big chance); the grizzly bears and wolves have other food sources from garbage to dogs to…………..?  You fill in the blank!

Grizzly bears no more belong in any numbers outside Yellowstone Park in the Lower 48 States than they belong in Central Park.

Jim Beers

17 October 2011

Good Morning,

Let me tell you I am very happy to be here to tell this story.

My friend Steve Thompson and I were duck hunting on Saturday (10/08/11) in Portage Valley (Alaska) and we were attacked by a brown bear. We are both OK but we killed the brown bear within 10 feet of our duck boat blind. This is one of those stories where you are just glad to be alive to tell it. I have lived and worked in Alaska for over 25 years and been around bears but never thought I would encounter one in my blind while duck hunting. I have provided a brief description of what happened below.

We had a small bull moose run about 10 feet behind our duck boat blind.  About 30 seconds later, we heard some grass rustling and thought it was another moose, but then we see a brown bear following the trail of the moose. When the bear gets about 20 feet from our blind he looks up and sees us and heads right toward the front of the blind where I am sitting. I fired 3 rounds (3" #4 steel shot) into the bear at point blank range. My friend says I fired my last round when the bear was 2 feet away. He goes on to say that my head and the bears head were 2 feet apart at one point. After firing my third round, I dove away from the bear and out of the blind and my friend Steve fires 3 rounds (3.5" #4 steel shot) into his head that sends the bear to the front of the boat on the ground about 10 feet away. Steve reloads as the bear is doing the death spin. He puts 3 more rounds into the bear. I get up, reload, and fire 3 more rounds into the bear. The bear isn't moving at this point in time.

Neither of us was hurt (not a scratch). We were just scared shitless. We had 2 dogs with us. The older dog (Mynx) was out of the blind with hackles up about 20 feet away from the bear. The young (5 months) dog (Lulu) was hidden under one of the chairs in the boat, She was shaking and wouldn't come out for awhile. On a side note, we got one duck (a gadwall).

I have attached a few photos. You will see our boat blind is destroyed. That was from me diving out one side of the blind and the bear coming in the other. There is also a picture of blood on the blind to show how close the bear was when he got shot. We think the bear was a 7+ foot brown bear.

 As a department employee, I thought I should send this to some select staff and the staff I work with. I did complete a defense of life and property report and turned in the completed report and the skinned bear to ADF&G staff here in Anchorage.

Regards,

Tim