Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=50458Post your bear stories here. No Wall Street Bears (or Bulls) allowed. This is for the furry kind. The Juneaubears website has morphed into a commercial thing, so I no longer refer you to it. I can guess what happened. Pat Costello, the man who established the website and championed it, could n...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5045838013210ManyMooseWow! Those are the kind of pictures that bring tears to my eyes. What a beautiful Creation we live in!http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289105875/23/2013 3:05:21 AMSnowshoeLooking down a brown bear's gullet... A grizzly Ate My GoPro!!! [youtube video]http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289028315/19/2013 12:52:28 AMSnowshoeHuge amount of later-winter snow here this year, so spring is about 3 weeks behind. Last snow melted from my yard a week ago, but we had another flurry yesterday. Here's a view of the mountains in late March this year... [graphic]http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289028295/19/2013 12:47:41 AMSnowshoeDrove 200 miles north to Cass and Winny lakes one year for the walleye opener, and found it a bit colder up there. Got skunked on the lakes, but did well bank fishing on the Upper Mississippi between Big and Little Winny.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289028245/19/2013 12:40:12 AMDMaAHow about a weird eagle story: Battling eagles make crash landing at Duluth airport Two adult bald eagles made an unplanned landing on the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport on Sunday. By: Sam Cook, Duluth News Tribune Eages locked in conflict [graphic] ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288928205/14/2013 9:02:02 AMDMaAThey found some interesting chemicals in 50 randomly selected Mn Lakes: Scientists from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency chose 50 lakes at random and tested them for 125 chemicals, including substances that mimic or interfere with the actions of naturally occurring hormones. The common insect repellent D...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288918935/13/2013 5:11:10 PMponokeeMay 12, 2013 Man thanks 'angels' who scared off bear during attack By Len Gillis, QMI Agency TIMMINS, Ont. - Two Timmins, Ont., women scared off a 400-pound black bear attacking a man after it had killed his dog and left him with wounds that needed 300 stitches. “I could feel his teeth rubbing against my s...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288902915/12/2013 6:42:17 PMIshhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288886665/11/2013 12:17:39 PMManyMooseOur field crews had .375 H&H Magnum rifles and 12 gauge shotgun slugs--their choice--as protection against bears. We never shot anything because we were able to avoid them.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288883425/11/2013 9:37:56 AMIshI have been watching Alaskan Troopers. They shoot people, bears and moose with 12 ga slugs. Bang and whatever they shoot is dead. One hell of a round.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288879385/10/2013 10:20:44 PMManyMooseYou don't wanna mess with a Mama Grizzly, but you don't wanna mess with a Mama Moose either. This heart-breaking series of twelve photographs document how a wolf pack killed a moose calf--but not before the Mama Moose put up a valiant fight to save her calf. Mama Moose fights for her calf...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288879135/10/2013 9:59:05 PMIshYou're frozen and down here we are flooding. Weird spring. 7% of the corn has been planted against the average of 88%.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288866525/10/2013 10:55:31 AMDMaAWhen I was a kid we always went to Big Winny (Winnibigoshish) on the opener. I can't remember ever being cold.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288865765/10/2013 10:34:25 AMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288865625/10/2013 10:31:41 AMDMaAMn Fishing opener - 10,000 lakes and nowhere to fish: On scale not seen since 1950, Minnesota fishing opener is on ice On Thursday morning, just two days before Minnesota’s fishing opener, Mark Lease of Grand Rapids had a problem. It was the same problem thousands of other anglers were facing: Most northern Minnes...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288863295/10/2013 8:45:50 AMSnowshoeGrizzly bears may have diet lessons that can be helpful for humans washingtonpost.com  In the case of the grizzlies, the Brookfield Zoo vets understood that the bears’ physiologies and innate behaviors were out of sync with their environment — thus, their obesity. So they designed what Natterson-Horowitz called “na...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288376464/15/2013 11:18:42 PMManyMooseThat's a new one on me. Beaver have some serious teeth, but I never heard of them biting humans before. Beaver Bites Man To Death In Belarus Attackhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288297104/11/2013 5:49:54 PMFUBHOBeavers don't like their pictures taken. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beaver Bites Man To Death In Belarus Attack The beaver pounced as a man went to take its photograph after spotting the animal on the side of a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288296164/11/2013 5:01:33 PMManyMooseRemember that next time a bear chases you up a tree. Bears like to scratch trees as high up as they can without climbing it. That way they know if a bigger bear comes along they can skedaddle. I was amazed at how fast the bear could climb the tree. He was up that tree as fast as he could run on flat ground.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288240024/9/2013 11:15:46 AMManyMooseI saw those stupid comments by people who live in the city or otherwise spend their time criticizing the legal rights of others. I have no patience with them. Keep their remarks to themselves and if they don't like bear baiting then don't do it. Personally, I do not like bear baiting either. It sounds like a lazy w...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288239994/9/2013 11:13:40 AMSidney ReillyI was amazed at how fast the bear could climb the tree. He was up that tree as fast as he could run on flat ground.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288234704/9/2013 2:35:15 AMponokeeHunters get up close and personal with a tree-climbing bear CALGARY — The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Apr. 07 2013, 9:20 PM EDT Clad in camo and sporting a scent wafer to mask his odour from the black bear he wants to kill, 18-year-old Hunter Coleman glances up at the camera. He is sitting in a tree blind in...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288234624/9/2013 2:09:39 AMManyMooseI would not have enjoyed that, but he took his time and made a good shot. I can find no fault with it. I never had a bear climb the same tree I was in, but I did once build a lunch fire in a hollow tree that had a hibernating bear in it. He woke up and came out, but wouldn't come down the tree until we moved off a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288234004/9/2013 12:31:50 AMponokeeBlack bears are always unpredictable. I don't know how dangerous a bear would be up a tree. I have a friend who claims he was in a canoe beside a swimming bear and patted him on the head. He also claims you can go into a bear's den in the winter throw your arms around him to stay warm and the bear won't wake up. ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288231944/8/2013 9:51:28 PMManyMooseThat makes no sense, but in Juneau there were areas where bird feeders were illegal for that very reason. after using a shotgun to kill a bear that began chasing him in his own backyard while he was stocking his bird feeders.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288230224/8/2013 7:15:34 PMDMaAIn Mass. if a bear starts chasing you you better let him getcha: Innocent Victims of Gun Control: The bear attack Posted on April 8, 2013 by John Pierce monachuslex.com  [graphic]A Massachusetts man is facing charges of illegal possession of a firearm and failing to secure a weapon after using a shotgun to...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288224114/8/2013 2:00:11 PMSidney ReillyI wonder why they didn't shoot the bear that ran right up the tree they were in. They must've had a pistol on them. That was too close for comfort. It's amazing how fast that bear got up that tree.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288218124/8/2013 9:13:19 AMBrumar89http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288217334/8/2013 7:59:30 AMponokeehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288192374/6/2013 1:52:54 AMDMaAYou think YOU have a hard time waking up. (Video at the site) duluthnewstribune.com  Drowsy bear draws a crowd along Duluth Lakewalk (with video) A drowsy black bear drew a steady stream of onlookers as it lounged and ambled in the woods along the Lakewalk in eastern Duluth on Saturday. By: An...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288084583/31/2013 12:54:38 PMponokeeHow Not to Hunt Coyote... Estevan-area man killed after snowmobile hits coyote, throwing him into trees Leader-Post staff March 26, 2013 [graphic] REGINA -- A 67-year-old man from the Estevan area was killed Tuesday in the Hudson Bay area after his snowmobile hit a coyote. According to an RCMP news release, ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288034783/27/2013 11:39:12 PMDirtythirtyMany, For people who may be sceptical about these efficient hunters, don't think you are one of them, watch this video and you can see how proficient the wolves are at hunting. Saw them do this to a bear and her cub years ago, and at first I laughed thinking they don't have a chance in hell of taking a cub from the so...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287943513/22/2013 5:19:56 PMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287936113/22/2013 12:29:39 PMManyMooseGood article. I think the wolves are much to blame for the decline in moose population. They are behind the decline in elk population in Montana and Idaho. The thing is, wolves have no economic value except for a minority of trophy hunters who would pay to hunt them. Elk and moose have tremendous economic value. ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287857063/18/2013 5:02:49 PMDMaAMoose are declining in Mn. Global Warming? Parasites? How about wolves? - Naaaaw. Wolves taking toll on Minnesota moose The first messages from dead moose to Minnesota researchers have been coming in, and early results show wolves are taking their toll on the state’s beleaguered moose herd despite an easy winter....http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287854853/18/2013 3:22:54 PMponokeeCareful around Spiders! 3-year-old recovering after tarantula at birthday party blasts his eyes with painful microscopic barbs Armina Ligaya | 13/03/12 9:49 PM ET More from Armina Ligaya | @arminaligaya [graphic] Peter J. Thompson/National PostMatthew Litzinger (CENTRE) and his wife Allison (RIGHT) had a par...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287755013/12/2013 10:12:16 PMManyMooseVery cool! At first I thought it was a joke. But that nose print on the glass tells it all.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287724733/11/2013 2:29:11 PMponokeehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287723693/11/2013 1:50:04 PMponokeehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287680163/8/2013 1:53:33 PMManyMooseAll the furbearers have musk glands under their tail. Marten and weasel aren't too bad.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287645903/6/2013 10:21:39 PMponokeeI worked with a guy who found two Lynx kittens wandering around, I think he said they were trying to scramble up a tree to get away from him. He thought one would make a nice present for his daughter so he grabbed one by the scruff of the neck turned it around and it sprayed him. Said it was worse than a skunk smell. S...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287645763/6/2013 10:10:24 PMManyMooseI never caught a lynx, but the bobcats I caught were able to demolish my sets so I had to rebuild them. No way you can release a big cat like that except when it's bound up like that one was in the fence and snare. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287645483/6/2013 9:57:45 PMponokeeInjured lynx wanders into Thompson man's yard By: Ashley Prest VIDEO AT LINK [graphic] Enlarge Image The lynx was caged and transported to the conservation office where it was examined and released outside the city when no injury was detected. (PHOTO BY STEPHEN KIRBY-MCDOUGALL) A limping lynx was looking for lun...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287645403/6/2013 9:48:33 PMManyMooseI'm glad too. There are things I'll get used to. I don't think I'll be shooting any chickens, Ish.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287579293/3/2013 10:22:19 PMIshhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287577233/3/2013 7:48:59 PMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287575383/3/2013 5:32:12 PMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287574393/3/2013 4:36:05 PMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287574333/3/2013 4:34:08 PMManyMoosehttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287574173/3/2013 4:27:29 PMBrumar89http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287572023/3/2013 1:31:00 PM