Anyone remember the spotted owl mantra from a few years back in Washington state: shoot, shovel and shut up. LOL

I just spoke to the Game Warden Captain who is stationed in Brownwood. He is unaware of a vehicle/bear collision in this area.

is that kind of like the red-cockaded woodpecker thing in Tx?

I called my Bud to verify the story. About the only thing I left out was that it was at night. He saw no T P & W vehicles around, just Highway Patrol. He told me it was somewhere around Owens. But he did mention that the Partolmen on the local was not touchin it. He said they kinda acted like they were waiting for someone. He said it was black, weighed about 350 lbs.or more. His head was kinda tucked under his body, but he could see the bottom of the snout, He said it was either a Bear or a Bigfoot. LOL

Bear are here to stay unless you want a fine out the tail,and no one can keep a secret.

Yep, that was the one I was thinking about. I remember it because it's not that far from my deer lease (a couple counties away). Several years ago one of my hunters said he saw bear tracks down at the river, and while I was skeptical, I gave him the benefit of doubt since I knew he had previous bear encounters in Arkansas. Looks like he was right!

See my last post above ^^^^
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Now that is friggin funny! He was covering it with a tarp so that people would quit stoppin to get out and look at it!!! Very possibly a better thing to have tried would have been to simply drag it's toothy arsh off the highway and that way traffic could resume flowing at its normal pace and most likely nobody would have noticed it had he parked his patrol car at an angle with the beast behind it.

Let's see. I'm going to cover the bear's dead arsh with a yellow tarp that is used to cover body's after a terrible accident or whatever and that should make the public stop slowing down to rubber neck! LOL

Haven't heard of too many Black Bears eating livestock in New Braunfels or the San Antonio area lately. Sure, I do agree that each landowner has a right to protect their property, but unless you can truly document that particular Endangered Species (Black Bears in Texas are NOT a predator, coyotes, bobcats & mt. lions are) is the one doing the damage/destruction to their property, be ready to answer to the USFWS.

I don't ever remember saying there was a problem with any black bears eating livestock anywhere in this State. What I did say in my post was I believe that landowners STILL OWN their property and if they have an animal that is causing destruction of property and or killing livestock then they should have the right to get rid of it! What I should not have said in my post was lumping the TP&W with the antis. That I regret and retract. However, I do believe if a bear was to move into a ranch that raised sheep and or goats and developed a taste for tender kid goat meat, it could easily devastate a herd and cost a landowner umpteen thousands of dollars! Furthermore, if you think I would ever support the killing a black bear, or any other protected animal for that matter just for the pure 'sport' of it in this state or anywhere else, you are sadly mistaken! I do not break any game laws and wouldn't reccomend it to anyone else either! I have two very close friends that are game wardens and I would waste a single second turning in anybody that I saw breaking the law!

When the bear pop started to become reestablished in michigan, right around the time they started the lottery draw for bear tags, the dnr enlisted civilan "bear rangers" that where called in to kill any problem bears reported. the only downside was the rangers had all the "tasty" bear meat they could want