Grizzly spoted in N.W. Colorado
#15
It isn't all that much of a stretch since they live not too many hundred miles away. There are corridors of wild land where they coulkd pass through at will looking for food. A few miles south and they get a kill and then the next one comes a few miles from that in the south direction....and so on
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
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They thought there were no more Griz in CO years ago until Ed Wiseman (Toneda Outfitters) found out differently.
The whole story got printed in Outdoor Life at the time. I'm thinking late 70s / early 80s if memory serves me.
I was just a kid at the time but I remember hearing about it.
Yes, there could be Griz in CO.
The whole story got printed in Outdoor Life at the time. I'm thinking late 70s / early 80s if memory serves me.
I was just a kid at the time but I remember hearing about it.
Yes, there could be Griz in CO.
#17
Nontypical Buck
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And your memory does serve you. It was 1979 - the year I moved from Colorado. Now, if my memory serves me, this was the guy who stabbed the bear with an arrow to kill it? But I also seem to recall that this bear was somewhere in SW Colorado? Somewhere east or southeast of Pagosa Springs, maybe?
#18
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And your memory does serve you. It was 1979 - the year I moved from Colorado. Now, if my memory serves me, this was the guy who stabbed the bear with an arrow to kill it? But I also seem to recall that this bear was somewhere in SW Colorado? Somewhere east or southeast of Pagosa Springs, maybe?
#19
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Yeah, down in the San Juans somewhere. A long way for a Griz to travel from known Griz territory but it happened. I'm in the Bighorns, just a walk in the park from real Griz country and G&F says we don't have any here. The wolves have made it here. Maybe Griz will too.
#20
Typical Buck
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I used to fish west of you up high quite a bit for cutthroat and grayling, haven't been up in a couple years though. Always wondered how long it would be before grizzlies moved in. I wonder whether G&F would admit to grizzlies being in your part of the country for fear of having to restrict things to do some pointless and expensive study to satisfy the environmentalists?
Personally I wouldn't mind a few Griz around here, except for the good point you made about bureaucracies and their "studies". It would add some mystery to going back in after the rest of those elk quarters.