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We went up to check traps today and had no bears…that place where we have 3 snares set is probably stinking of humans, so wild bears are probably staying away form it.
Tim took off after that and D and I scouted for new snare sites for a few hours but to no avail. D was feeling pretty ill this morning…part headache, part upset stomach and part depression due to this Carrie Hunt/WRBI ordeal. So, I said we were going to head on down and he could work on his boxes to put cameras in to film our trap sites while we’re not there and I would run errands in town.
We got back home around 1PM and I turned around and headed into Kalispell to run a ton of errands and D stayed at the camper with the “kids” and fashioned his little camera boxes…hopefully indestructible to bears…or at least mostly indestructible. We’ll hopefully be able to set one up tomorrow. We’re going to put in a hard day tomorrow since we kinda slacked today…Tim has to go up to the grain spill with the new Regional Supervisor of his office…so…that takes him away from us, potentially.
This is a picture of Jeff Corwin with Montana FWP biologist Rick Mace and Tim Manley before they went in to drug the black bear we snared:
Here's Jeff talking to the camera before drugging the bear (in the middle)
This is the black bear after being drugged...a beautiful male about 15 years old...solid as a rock! It was so nice to see a bear in such good condition this early on in the fall:
This Jeff and Rick hooking the black bear up to oxygen...a normal practice with Rick when you have a drugged bear:
Tim took off after that and D and I scouted for new snare sites for a few hours but to no avail. D was feeling pretty ill this morning…part headache, part upset stomach and part depression due to this Carrie Hunt/WRBI ordeal. So, I said we were going to head on down and he could work on his boxes to put cameras in to film our trap sites while we’re not there and I would run errands in town.
We got back home around 1PM and I turned around and headed into Kalispell to run a ton of errands and D stayed at the camper with the “kids” and fashioned his little camera boxes…hopefully indestructible to bears…or at least mostly indestructible. We’ll hopefully be able to set one up tomorrow. We’re going to put in a hard day tomorrow since we kinda slacked today…Tim has to go up to the grain spill with the new Regional Supervisor of his office…so…that takes him away from us, potentially.
This is a picture of Jeff Corwin with Montana FWP biologist Rick Mace and Tim Manley before they went in to drug the black bear we snared:
Here's Jeff talking to the camera before drugging the bear (in the middle)
This is the black bear after being drugged...a beautiful male about 15 years old...solid as a rock! It was so nice to see a bear in such good condition this early on in the fall:
This Jeff and Rick hooking the black bear up to oxygen...a normal practice with Rick when you have a drugged bear: