Griz Photos

[cohoho]

Someone asked for some Griz and Brown bear photos, here are some. These first couple were from right behind my house in Oct of 2004.

[cohoho]

Here are a couple more, and Polar Bear shot a friend took somewhere at one of the Air Force remote radar sites, I think Ilitik or something like that.  The Polar bears would destroy the fences every so often and the CE guys would have to go up and repair, one on bear guard...

[cohoho]

One last group...

[Head-shot]

Those are really some cool pics. When you say right behing your house, how close?  How far were you from that bear in the pic, and did you harvest that bear? I sure wish I could have drew Alaska as a duty station while I was in the AF. I was in CE so that would have really been cool...

[saylean]

Very cool man, thanks for posting.

[Idabooner]

Those are great, thanks. Don't seem like a shortage of polar bears.

[Sagedawg]

Coho, that was me asking about the Grizz pix. Those are simply awesome. Kinda a double edge sword to have them hanging out in your backyard though. And I thought picking up dog crap was bad......lol.  Again thanks for those shots.



Sage

[Slider]

Nice Pics!!! Where did you live at in Alaska?

[cohoho]

The only time they were a problem was that year 2004, we lived in Eagle River and our house over looked the river, we'd see bears every now and then, normally when I was dorking around outside late at night or down on the river itself.  It started when the Momma brought the young ones around for garbage training and they decided heck yea, meals on wheels in tin cans...  F & G, Rick Sinnott Biologist augured with me several times about it NOT being a momma and two little ones, he was, in his expert opinion positive it was only one young rouge griz kicked out by mother.  Wrong, every morning for about a week and half they were into everyones stuff, garbage, trucks, boats etc...  Myself and my boys have a lot of video footage of all three together, we got it by parking the truck and listening for the dogs to start going crazy then driving through the subdivision and finding and video taping the bears.  I was on the news for Anchorage Channel 2 with the footage, made old Ricky look bad.... Cause on the clip prior to mine, he is stating his facts of only one bear.   I lost three velvet Caribou covered antlers, that I had drying on a shelf, one double shovel, when they broke through my cedar fence to get at the antlers, you could hear the snapping sounds as they ate them, pretty cool.  I used to drive the boys to school and pick them up after school during this time frame, twice we found the bears in the neighbors back yard in the middle of the day eating his small veggie garden, what was left of it.  The part that is bad, F & G did nothing and could have easily trapped them as they were easy to find.  Momma got shot as she did something wrong at a neighbors house.  The first cub (250 lbs) got killed by F & G when it killed a baby moose just down the street from our house in the early morning and lastly reports were in that someone else shot the second cub.  There were reports from credible source of at least four Moose kills in and around the area, the ones that were found anyhow..  Rumor had it was a neighbor of mine that claimed he got it up north, yea right about the same time frame, either way.  Don't get me wrong, if they presented danger to me, I would have shot them too, but we got some cool film and it was exciting to have these guys around, not safe but exciting.  They were very big either...Nice rigs though.. One good note I sold thirteen seconds of video to BBC for $450 of one of the cubs carring antler away from my house in the early morning and another running in front of my driveway at night. The BBC show is called "Moose On The Loose", ironically it is a film bio about Rick the Biologist and his helper and how they help the population of the Anchorage Moose in the winter.   It was the only time I TRUELY packed the "big gun" when the kids went trick or treating on 31 Oct...  I will see if some how I can figure out how to get the video clip down loaded.  It isn't bad footage....  Thank god no kid was injured or taken by one of these guys, they were not really people shy at all...  Now in the same area they got the wolves taking people pets, hee yaw, bad time to have moved, need a black wolf...

[PacificNWhunter]

Awesome photos  I'm planning a grizz hunt in 2010

[boneaddict]

COOL!

[popeshawnpaul]

I don't have a ton of bear photos, but here is one.  Although it was pouring rain and the hairs were really sticking out on the bear, I think I fatally over-sharpened this photo.  Too bad I don't have the original.  Actually, I think I sold the original and it was in an article about bear research in some magazine.  I also know it was published in the WSU yearbook...

[popeshawnpaul]

Baby griz.  Awwwwww.

[Head-shot]

Nice pics Pope, you certainly have a talent.

[FANATIC]

Here is one from a section of river I used to frequent when I lived in AK.