Originally Posted By Chris Kavanaugh

18 months duty on Kodiak Island, 12 months park survey member in Kenai studying mainland brownies, 3 weeks in Churchill, Canada- Polar Bear capital of the world, 2 archaeological contracts in Montana in grizzly habitat, countless horsepacking trips in California bear country, honour of meeting with the Seus family and Bart, acquaintance of Douglas Peacock and told Timothy Treadwell he would get himself and bears killed someday and that I would mourn the bears. I also watched Han, the great white bear enter the pavilion during a religous procession with my Hopi friends. The slaughter of ursus is in the thousands. The number of human deaths miniscule, with most the result of human stupidity. To give our most arrogant of species a dedicated bear stopping firearm assures a single option and sad end for the bear when We intrude on HIS world. My Choctaw clan lineage precludes making war on family in any case. " If we have a race war, I'm siding with the Bears." - John Muir .