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Karl,

It is pretty obvious you know more about the Florida black bear than the
"experts" - you are in the woods weekly checking on the bears, scat
tracks, etc.

FWC's own panhandle radio tracked bears show dog hunting pushes the
bears from their habitat south to the busy roads on the coast - of
course they are extremely stressed.

The winter burns should be done in the summer when lightning is the
natural cause of fire - added bear stress when done in the winter.

Your explanation below is based on science, basic logic and what the FWC
data shows - why can we not seem to get anyone who can stop this madness
to listen?  Still "too many bears" in Florida as an excuse?

Frank B. Arenas
P.O. Box 600
Coleman, FL 33521-0600
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(352) 748-6629

On 1/17/2022 11:50 AM, Karl Ambrose wrote:
> I’ve been watching and working on this for seven years now. There’s a
> pattern. This time of year, female bears with Cubs, yearlings to be
> exact. Dogs seem to really trigger them. And the Bears are extremely
> aggressive. Why? Most of these horrible events take place during deer
> dog season and winter Burning. When the Bears should be in lethargic
> stage. They are not, mommy is really pissed off. We need to understand
> this and stop calling them bear attacks. We are interfering with a
> biological stage and we’re screwing them up. I have six examples to back
> me up. Putting it out there to think about.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 16, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Karl Ambrose <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>> Why was this female bear out of place and under stress? What made this
>> female bear aggressive? This female bear acting aggressive like this,
>> has nothing to do with bear population. I want to be clear here. This
>> was not a bear attack. That female bear was protecting her young. She
>> was under stress.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2022, at 4:55 PM, WOODARDLAW <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>>> So, we kill a mother bear for protecting her young when the "attack"
>>> resulted in a scratch.  Err on the side of human safety has been the
>>> motto from day one.  If it had been a human mother, she would have
>>> gotten an award.  Not to worry, the babies didn't really need the
>>> mother.  It makes me sick.
>>>
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>>> In a message dated 1/16/2022 3:57:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>>
>>>     “Wildlife officials euthanized the adult black bear following
>>>     *the attack*. DEBARY, Fla. (WESH) - A Florida woman feels “lucky
>>>     to be alive” after she was tackled by a bear while walking her
>>>     dogs. Neighbors helped save her from the attack.13 hours ago”Why
>>>     was this female mother bear under so much stress? So I spoke to a
>>>     state forest ranger at Rock springs run State reserve. So
>>>     they’ve been doing Winter burning most of December and even now
>>>     as early two days ago. These areas are next to DeBary Florida.
>>>     So the question we need to ask ourselves. Why would a mother with
>>>     yearling cubs be active during lethargic time? Could the
>>>     prescribed winterburning  have caused this situation? Because
>>>     winter burning is going on in this area, we cannot rule it out.
>>>     We can’t let FWC say or use this as an example of overpopulation.
>>>     We need to state the facts: winter burning has been going on in
>>>     that area and that could’ve been the problem, we need to be
>>>     informed. 
>>>     <image1.png><image2.png>
>>>
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