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The Foie Gras Bears

Black bears are emerging from hibernation now, hungry to taste the rich food on offer in Aspen and other Colorado resorts.

Black bears are emerging from hibernation now, and Aspen has a bear problem, one that it shares with other upscale Colorado mountain towns (Vail, Telluride, Durango, etc.). Bear populations are growing in these areas, even as resort and real estate development shrinks their habitat. Aspen police and wildlife officials fielded 460 bear-related calls in 2009. Two people were attacked inside posh homes in separate incidents last summer. Around the same time a 74-year-old woman named Donna Munson was killed by a bear on her rural property near Ouray. Despite warnings from authorities, she had persisted in feeding bears in her backyard. “She was dead set on continuing to feed the bears, and unfortunately, she paid the ultimate price,” Ouray County Sheriff’s Investigator Joel Burk told the Los Angeles Times. Nearby Durango, Colorado reported 627 local bear sightings in 2009.

These ski towns have a trash problem in that their prosperity produces a lot of it. Dumpsters behind opulent homes, restaurants, or a McDonald’s are ursine food magnets. In the last year in the Aspen area 42 bears have died, not counting the normal harvest of the hunting season. Of that number, twenty have been shot by cops or otherwise euthanized by Colorado Division of Wildlife personnel. The other 22 were hit by motor vehicles. Summertime Aspen is “bear season.” New municipal ordinances demanding secure — “bear-proof” — dumpsters are increasingly seen in resort towns. Pitkin County (Aspen) has increased fines for “unsecured” dumpsters and trashcans. Aspen has a municipal program called “Bear Aware.” Durango’s is called “Bear Smart.”

Eastern states have also seen a population explosion of bruins in the last few years, even requiring a controversial hunting season in New Jersey, for instance. The bears seem to be thriving nationwide thanks to changes in their habitats and diet. And like coyotes and deer (and in the West, mountain lions), they are strangely at home in suburban America. When a bear ransacks a dumpster in the middle of the night in your neighborhood cul-de-sac, it is simply adapting to its environment, as bears have done in North America for the past four million years.

The black bear (Ursus americanus) is found from Alaska to Mexico, including all wooded areas of the United States from the Appalachians to the Midwest and beyond to the Rockies and Pacific Coast Ranges. They’re so numerous that there are twice as many black bears in North America as there are all other bear species (grizzlies, brown bears, polar bears, etc.) found worldwide. They are omnivorous, that is, they’ll eat anything: berries, acorns, decomposing carrion upon emerging from hibernation, honey from beehives, fish, potato salad and candy bars swiped off your picnic table, or the remnants of a fast food feast in a dumpster. Their numbers point to the fact that they increasingly don’t die in hibernation, an evolutionary population check common when they entered that period underweight from a lack of natural food. The females — or sows — not only enjoy the higher survival rates, but breed more often and produce more cubs. Bears historically raided dumps when there was a dearth of natural plant food due to drought. Now it seems that their evolutionary appetite is pointing to huge amounts of available human food. Why bother with roots and berries when you can visit the dumpster behind a chic new restaurant in Aspen at 3 a.m.?

Bear hunters in Colorado only fill 5% of tags issued; 95% fail to kill a bear. Black bears are mostly nocturnal, and legal hunting occurs during daylight hours, so it actually requires hunting skill to kill a bear in the wild (that’s the point). The Colorado Division of Wildlife hopes to increase annual hunter success this fall from an average of 33 to 55 bears in a large section of territory on the White River National Forest from Aspen to Vail and Vail Pass, so it’s almost doubling the number of permits available this year from “630 to about 1,050 starting this fall,” spokesman Randy Hampton told New West. And they are doing this in other sections across much of western Colorado.

It will be relatively quiet until August. At that time the bears will heed their instinctual call (hyperphagia) to start packing in 20,000 calories a day to prepare for the rigors of hibernation, which is actually more than a pleasant six-month snooze. Pregnant sows will give birth to — and nurse — an average of two cubs in the winter den, and literally need a good layer of fat to propagate the species. As the first frosty nights nip the mountains, and the glitterati and tourists put away their golf clubs and dream of snowy ski slopes, the hungry foie gras bears will lumber into Aspen, once again arrogantly neglecting to phone in their reservations. 

About the Author

Bill Croke, formerly of Cody, Wyoming, is a writer in Salmon, Idaho.

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Stephanie| 4.23.10 @ 6:29AM

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AmenBro| 4.23.10 @ 6:39AM

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Alan Brooks| 4.23.10 @ 11:25PM

"Ever wonder why you don't have a huge problem with errant EDIBLE or Hazardous wildlife down south YAWL???"

Yes, and the murder rate is higher down South, so your population might be under control someday
-- even with illegals coming in through the border.

Happy hunting, YAWL!

Alan Brooks| 4.23.10 @ 11:31PM

You don't think the Southern murder rate is higher? Going by population density IMO it is.
But DO try this experiment: travel through the rest of the country without a gun, then travel through the South without one.

So here's the question: where would you feel safer without a gun?:

a) down South
b) or somewhere else?

Alan Brooks| 4.23.10 @ 11:35PM

...none of you are going to say New England is more dangerous to be in without a gun than the South??

Kevin Noll| 4.24.10 @ 7:28AM

Ever been to Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven, CT?

Alan Brooks| 4.24.10 @ 9:49AM

Yes. But as a whole, New England is the most 'civilized' region in the country, it has had since 1620 to attempt to dampen its unruly nature (with mixed results, naturally). I lived in Brattleboro Vt for 3 years, and never felt threatened-- an anomaly it is true; but as far as I know you don't need a gun in VT except to hunt bambis.

Alan Brooks| 4.24.10 @ 9:56AM

PS, to head off a charge that Bratteboro is a 'libral, pinko' town:
it is a very old fashioned area, with many countercultural statutes as boilerplate left over from the Quaint Eras. Just three years ago its untried law permitting nudity in public was overturned when ugly old men started appearing on Main Street in the altogether.

So much for flaming liberalism.

AmenBro| 4.24.10 @ 5:18PM

Yous always drop your drawers ALAN and show everyone how little your tallywacker is.

Buy the way ALAN drawers is underwear in Southern parlance.

You remain a closed minded insipid dipschtick. Look up the demographic sir, and I use the term lightly.

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c. j. acworth| 4.24.10 @ 2:14PM

I live about 25 miles from Brattleboro, and I have to take in my bird feeders every year in late winter. That's when the bears wake up.

John Navratil| 4.24.10 @ 11:50AM

Mr. Brooks,

Did you also know that the murder rate goes up with the consumption of ice cream? Time to ban ice cream, I would think.

The murder rate has little to do with the South so much as it has to do with latitude and temperature. More people on the streets at night yield the higher murder rate. Try L.A., Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver as examples and quit being such a bigot about the South.

You might also note that the murder rate peaked in 1980 (or thereabout), but increased in gang (read drug) related crime. It may surprise you that I live in the fourth largest city in America and arguably in the South (i.e. Houston), but so long as I don't tread on a dealers cabbage patch, close the bars at 2AM or fiddle around with some one else's wife, I have a damned small chance of being murdered.

Kitty| 4.23.10 @ 6:56AM

When my daughter and her husband and their then-7-y-o son went camping on Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks, they had to leave in the middle of the night because a bear had invaded their camp. They had sealed their food in containers and hung the containers in the trees. But the bear easily clawed its way up the trunks. Loud noises did not scare the it away.

A fed bear is a dead bear.
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Gr0w1er| 4.23.10 @ 12:36PM

Time to carry a .45 ACP. Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

Bill| 4.23.10 @ 1:03PM

A .45 round, or even a magazine full, will just make a black bear angry. If you want to consider a firearm, I'd suggest starting at the .30-06 or more powerful, and choose rifle over handgun.

Jim Wilson | 4.23.10 @ 2:11PM

A .357 or .44 magnum might be able to do the trick, if you're lucky. If you can't carry a rifle for some reason, a heavy revolver is the next best thing. I reckon a 9mm would be better than a .45 ACP though, cause 15 or 17 of them might actually do it, the higher velocity might penetrate better. And if that's what you've got, better to die trying.

For myself I take a .357 Magnum Blackhawk when I go hiking or camping, it'll kill anything with one shot (except a bear) that I might run into--and has a decent chance of knocking out a black bear too. Wouldn't want to try it against a grizzly, that's for sure. It's good for hiking too, because it's single-action only and is really hard to shoot accidentally. I plan on keeping my lifetime no-accidental-discharges record going for another 40 years.

Jim Wilson | 4.23.10 @ 2:15PM

Incidentally I don't carry a rifle because people seem to be afraid of them. I don't quite understand but I don't want to be terrifying the greenhorns everywhere I go. They're leery enough about a pistol but I carry it in a cowboy-style rig and that mollifies people for some reason. Makes them smile indulgently while an automatic makes them scared. No comprendo, but oh well.

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Melvin| 4.23.10 @ 7:49AM

Since humans do not eat a healthy diet, could it be construed that humans are considered fast food in bear fare?
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Louis Jenkins| 4.23.10 @ 8:27AM

Okay, already. Yes, we need to control the bears. But how? By controling the humans? Or by controling the bears?

LarryK| 4.23.10 @ 9:14AM

Let them feed the bears. What is the worst that could happen?

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Rocky mountain bears have also developed an attraction for eastern accented speech. Just a warning.

Pete| 4.23.10 @ 11:28AM

I have heard this as well. In fact, the letters NY and B on hats drive them insane and cause their appetite for human flesh to surge out of control.

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Dwight Schrute| 4.23.10 @ 1:51PM

A well-formualted and insightful writing about North America's most ferocious and spectacular indigenous creature, Ursus americanus. Here in Scranton, black bears are not only common, but some babies have been kept for years, illegally of course. When I was still a volunteer at the sheriff department, we used to get calls about these bears all day. Campers would foolishly leave their leftover food unwrapped and outside for the ravenous, furry creatures to smell. We never had to shoot a bear, but we damn well came close one time. The bear had taken an entire families' possesions with him while raiding for food inside the tent. Out at Schrute Farms, Mose and I have had several bear encounters. One warm spring, half of our beat crop was destroyed by a family of bears looking for their next meal. It crippled us economically, and we almost had to sell the farm to my 3rd cousins Jebadiah and Hezekiah. They're Amish, however, and didn't have American currency to complete the transaction, only the German mark. Remeber, bears can climb faster than they run. Mose found out the hard way.

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JimP| 4.23.10 @ 3:08PM

But,...... black bears are harmless, fuzzy balls of fun according to the 'Disney' wildlife biologists. Just right for human interaction. I saw a program on the tube where they guy was the 'friend' of black bears and he said it proved they were harmless and should not be hunted. 'Bears are people too.'

I say let the 'elites' keep feeding the bears and hopefully the bears will start killing/eating the elites.

GreyLion| 4.23.10 @ 3:41PM

Black bears are hungry and dumb.
Grizzly bears are hungry and mad.
Wolves are hungry and smart.
If you are liberal and want to commune with nature please do come to Montana in June. But be sure to wear your bear bells and carry a pistol or a revolver and a GPS unit. We want to be sure to find your remains and ship them home and we need your firearms. In all fairness you probably ought to leave the kids at home.

South Texan| 4.25.10 @ 2:03AM

Thanks for the invite. I think I'll stay in Texas. Good post.

Patrick | 4.23.10 @ 5:23PM

"Black bears are emerging from hibernation now, hungry to taste the rich food on offer in Aspen and other Colorado resorts. (Read) "

Otherwise known as tourists...

PDD| 4.23.10 @ 9:25PM

Let them have New Jersey!

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CJ| 4.24.10 @ 3:38AM

You're worried about bears getting into the garbage? Here in Canada they're getting straight into the hot tubs.

Local bears acquire taste for hot tubs
Bears on the North Shore are apparently waking up from hibernation with a taste for the finer things in life -- like hot tubs.

And that's causing headaches for conservation officers and local bear advocates, who say they're not sure how to keep the bears away.

Recently, a black bear -- three to five years old and 90 kilograms -- was relocated to the Elaho River Valley near Squamish from North Vancouver after it ripped apart a hot tub cover on Royal Avenue and was getting too comfortable around humans.

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The network can usually count on two to three calls each season about the hot-tub-seeking bears.

Webb says it doesn't appear the bears are interested in a soak.

Some bear experts believe the materials in the hot-tub covers emulate a smell similar to the inside of bees' nests, and "the bears know by instinct and lock on to it," Webb says.

Publius| 4.24.10 @ 3:47PM

Good thing we have these regulations to protect the bears from us. Good thing PETA is on the job to prevent us from hurting bears.

Jones | 4.25.10 @ 11:49AM

In the past I've noticed that too many Coloradans take too cuddly a view of our animal neighbors, tolerating all manner of interruptions and inconveniences in order to 'be kind' to animals. This has allowed unchecked expansion of prairie dog colonies in suburban areas, Canada geese attacking people walking from the parking lot to the office entrance, and coyotes foxes and mountain lions on regular nighttime neighborhood patrol.

But here in Jefferson Co., there has been some pushback lately. A new hospital in Lakewood is under construction, and a large prairie dog colony was displaced without protest. And my employer has banned the damned Canada geese, which had become way too territorial when nesting amongst the building's landscaping in spring. It got to where we couldn't use a large patio for lunch or smoke breaks because those infernal geese had claimed it as nesting territory. They finally pecked the wrong employee on the butt, I guess, and they got the boot.

More like this, please.

Curtis| 4.25.10 @ 1:11PM

Steve Irwin and all the other happy animal lovers always say "The animal is always more afraid of you then you are of it."

And they are generally right! except in four circumstances; If it is sick, if it is injured, if it is with young, or if it is trying to find some "tail",

In those four circumstances, all bets are off. Even the smaller critters are dangerous then. A sick or wounded possum or raccoon can cause serious injury. You don't want to meet a hurt coyote or deer, and you're pretty much dead if you get between a grizzly sow and her cubs.

In those circumstances, the usual deterrents are irrelevant. The animal will not scare off, back down, or think smart. You're going to need more. That *more* usually involves a fast brain, and some times a faster chunk of lead.

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these bears are a national treasure yet must be protected from humans.

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physisian| 5.7.10 @ 6:35AM

Foie Gras is not a true food.
It is a fatty liver (disease) with infection of ducks and birds.
These poor animals are kept in crowded conditions and suffer immensely traumatic forced-feeding process and disregard for the pain. These poor animals are forced to eat lots of fat by tube. They are suffering from infection and bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract.
This continues until they die. Then fatty liver of suffered and patient birds is used for the foie gras production.
So extreme form of animal cruelty is the way that foie gras is produced

I am physician and I am sure that this food can cause serious diseases:

1-Because of animals suffer, a lot of toxins (oxidants) are produced in their body and these toxins can lead to cancer in human body.
2-these birds are neglected and infected and their liver is filled with harmful fats that lead to cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Please stop suffer animals and producing foie gras.

As a customer please do not select the foie gras in the menu of restaurants.

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But,...... black bears are harmless, fuzzy balls of fun according to the 'Disney' wildlife biologists. Just right for human interaction. I saw a program on the tube where they guy was the 'friend' of black bears and he said it proved they were harmless and should not be hunted.

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.I saw a program on the tube where they guy was the 'friend' of black bears and he said it proved they were harmless and should not be hunted. 'Bears are people too.

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By the way, is there anyway to keep them away from the front yard or backyard? I'm thinking some storm lights or something? I don't want to hurt them but just give em a good scare.

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