Don White wrote:

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Churchill, Manitoba seems to have found a way to make money off 'bear
watching' tourists. They also have a program to relocate troublesome bears.



There's some people here trying to relocate the buggers as well:

http://www.friends-of-fur.org/
Personally, I'm supporting the idea of re-introducing them to Queen's Park.

We supposedly have a bear relocation program, too. I talk to the bear
guy every spring when he puts the live bear trap in my yard for the
maximum three days that he can spare it (IIRC there are eight traps and
over a hundred calls a week in the spring season). They are taken about
150 miles and released. It took the one I know of (a big one with a
green tag that they trapped up the road from here) three days to get back.


Oh - and I'd like to point out, for my American friends that it was a
right-wing CONSERVATIVE government grovelling for votes that canceled
the spring bear hunt in Ontario, not "loony" liberalism, which up here
we call "The NDP"

Stella