#@!%&+ Bears!

[Patocazador]

I have a place that's only 150 acres but I have 6 bears on trail cameras.

One large boar is smarter than the others and managed to destroy my hanging feeder. The others took advantage of it.










The FWC says they will deal with the bear problem IF it gets out of hand. I say 6 bears on 150 acres IS 'out-of-hand'.

 

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The second to last picture looks like Winnie the Pooh with his honey bucket.

They are smart, how high was your lowering cable that he could reach?

 

[Thibaut]

I have a place that's only 150 acres but I have 6 bears on trail cameras.

The FWC says they will deal with the bear problem IF it gets out of hand. I say 6 bears on 150 acres IS 'out-of-hand'.

150 acres is a lot of acres. I drove from Orlando (I4 is reminiscent of the 405 in LA) a couple of days ago (Hwy 27) and was surprised to see bear signage in Polk or Glades County. Glades, I think.

 

[Patocazador]

They are smart, how high was your lowering cable that he could reach?

Not high enough. the boar is big enough that he came within 1 1/2 feet of the bucket with his upper limbs stretched out. The bottom of the bucket was 9' high.

 

[Milt1]

Patocazador, forget the bears, what kind of snake problem do you have there?

 

[Armored farmer]

Once upon a time we had two crazy wild cows. We darted them and they woke up in the ten-wheeler.

I wonder if six bears would be considered 'out of hand' in the FWC offices? Probably.

I guess Florida bears dont hibernate? Probably are like farmers and just slow way down and eat alot.

 

[Patocazador]

Patocazador, forget the bears, what kind of snake problem do you have there?

Only ground rattlers (pygmy rattlers) so far. They are small but ornery.

 

[Patocazador]

I guess Florida bears dont hibernate?

According to the biologists pregnant female bears in Florida den up to have their cubs. I don't know if they actually hibernate. The last one pictured sure has a big flabby gut. Maybe she(?) has or will have some young cubs in a den.

 

[courtgreene]

It gets cold here, and bears don’t truly hibernate. They slow down, eat and rest, stay put longer, but never truly hibernate. So I doubt they would in Florida where it stays warmer longer.

 

[DocRock]

Wow. That shows how resilient and adaptable the bear population is. Sorry for your bear troubles though.

 

[NSDQ]

Please don't judge, but other than your feeder are the bears destructive? Are they driving away other game or tearing stuff up?
Not sure I fully understand the problem.
Coyotes eat livestock...kill em
Prairie dogs...just fun to shoot...
Wild pigs...hell even the neighbors barn cats pissing on my fence, but I dont have bears here, so educate me.

 

[22250Rem]

Just googled "Florida bear hunting" and found out they didn't have a season in 2019 and 2020 hasn't been decided yet. If they re-open it you could bear hunt in the name of wildlife management. If they don't re-open it but yours are deemed as nuisance bears then perhaps they could trap and relocate some of them. We had a nuisance bear in the woods next to me back in 2007. The Dept. Of Environmental Conservation trapped it across the road one night with what I called a "Bear size Havahart Trap." Just a big cage on a 2 axle trailer. Don't know what they used for bait but they got it, tranqualized it, and took it to its new home a couple hours away. So even if they can't shoot 'em; they can still control them with relocation.

 

[Captcurt]

You might get the Game and Fish over a trap them, but that doesn't mean that they won't come back. My neighbor had one coming onto his porch and eating his dog food. AGFC trapped it and moved it 20 miles the Buffalo National River. It was back in two weeks.

 

[BigBore44]

You might get the Game and Fish over a trap them, but that doesn't mean that they won't come back. My neighbor had one coming onto his porch and eating his dog food. AGFC trapped it and moved it 20 miles the Buffalo National River. It was back in two weeks.

It’s funny how “stupid” animals can be transported to an area tens or even hundreds of miles away and find their way back to the exact spot they were taken from. But people (the supreme intelligence on this earth) can’t get to the same grocery store they’ve been to 50 times, in the next town over, without google maps.

 

[Glockula]

I will get covered up in bears at times. I habe had up to six within 100 yards of me at one time. They are worse here early in the season, september- October.

In six years I havent had a shooter bear in front of me in season. Its like They know.

 

[FL-NC]

What is the area where this is happening? I know the area around Woodruff WMA/. De Leon Springs is ate up with bears. They have destroyed some of our blinds and ate all of the corn we had out for deer. I also heard a whole bunch were taken in the Ocala area when the season was re-opened there a couple years ago. Hopefully you can get FWC to help you with this. Or if 2020 has a bear season, you can either get a tag or get someone who does have a tag to help you out.

 

[Nature Boy]

The obvious answer to the problem is to open a season for bears. I hope the FWC uses some common sense

 

[Patocazador]

This area is in the eastern panhandle next to public hunting land. FWC classifies it as good bear habitat. However, the biologists and FWC in general are "buffaloed" by the Antis and the wildlife commission has very few hunters on it ... mostly urbanites with some political clout. So they refuse to open a short season even in limited areas.

 

[FL-NC]

A friend of mine who lives in Navarre has a bear roaming around his subdivision raiding trash cans. Last year a lady in Crestview in the city lost her dog to a bear in her back yard.

 

[illinoisburt]

You don't have 6 bears living on 150 acres. You have 6 bears that you lured in. Bears are smart. They will keep hanging around so long as you keep feeding them. Sorry but they don't know who the food is for. Hunt the deer by hunting instead of baiting will fix the issue. We get the same complaints all the time with hogs around here. Bait goes away, so do they.

 

[JFrank]

Hey
Perhaps you could trap them and deliver to the FWC parking lot.

 

[JFrank]

I have a place that's only 150 acres but I have 6 bears on trail cameras.

One large boar is smarter than the others and managed to destroy my hanging feeder. The others took advantage of it.
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The FWC says they will deal with the bear problem IF it gets out of hand. I say 6 bears on 150 acres IS 'out-of-hand'.

Stop feeding them will help

 

[Captcurt]

I know of a few that just disappeared around here. Must have moved on to greener pastures.

 

[stokes1971]

You don't have 6 bears living on 150 acres. You have 6 bears that you lured in. Bears are smart. They will keep hanging around so long as you keep feeding them. Sorry but they don't know who the food is for. Hunt the deer by hunting instead of baiting will fix the issue. We get the same complaints all the time with hogs around here. Bait goes away, so do they.

This,exactly.Bears are loners,they dont wander in packs.You are baiting them.Lose the bait or stop complaining.Reminds me of when I first moved into this house.My neighbor was complaining that there are a lot of skunks around our houses.She was putting food out for the feral cats in the area.I said stop feeding them.She says,I'm not feeding them,I'm feeding the cats.So I told her she needs to put up a no skunks allowed sign.When her dog got sprayed,she stopped feeding the skunks.