Text 9610, 40 rader
Skriven 2008-01-06 18:40:18 av Carol Shenkenberger (1333.fidonews)
   Kommentar till text 9609 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Cats
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 >  >> I've seen black bear in the back woods here in Texas.
 > 
 >  CS> I wouldnt be suprised at all.  You see them in the mountains around
 >  CS> my home areas when I was a kid, along the blue ridge as well.

 > Supposedly they're rare in East Texas...protected even.

Yes, the link I listed, shows 50 in 1997 but a growing protected community
and there were always sightings of them from campers.

 >  CS> In addition to killing off most of the wolves and buffalo, we killed
 >  CS> off most of the bears in the southerly parts of the USA when 'white
 >  CS> man' moved in.
 > 
 > But they're back now. Bears are more abundant today than they have been in
 > decades.

Yup.  Not even protected in some parts as they are doing just fine on their
own.  Some states even have hunting periods set to bring them back down to a
level the folks can live with.
 >  CS> They are still quite prevalent though in protected parks and northern
 >  CS> areas as well as across Canada/Alaska.
 > 
 > And, Texas and Mexico.

Actually, Texas not as much and dont know about Mexico.  Virginia though
tracks 2,500 of them.  Note my search was on black bears.  I'm not sure if
the other versions were also added in there.  I suspect brown bears were, but
grizzly and polar were not.  I'd have to do a better search to check on
those.

Now what Bjorn probably does have more of, is reindeer.  Sure, we have our
wild moose (meeses?) but we probably do not compare on that one south of
Canada.  Our smaller deer are fairly well represented, but not the same type
they have.  They are largely winter tundra stuff and we are too far south
(alaska excepted) for them.
               xxcarol
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