"Black Dog" wrote in message
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Many outfitters have gone out of business. No more rich American
hunters shovelling money into small northern towns. And you'd think all
those southern-ontario city folk would just love to come have a look at
the cute little bearcubs. But no. One business that I know, in 5 years
has had NOT EVEN ONE "eco-tourist".

I was thinking of starting a website offering bear viewing tours to
Torontians. All they have to do is sit out on my deck. Those cute
little bearcubs aren't nearly so cute really close up. (I'd lock the
backdoor once I got my tourists out there heeheehee)

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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.

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