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Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:32 PM Apr 2015

Alaska's governor issues pardon for family of bears slated for euthanasia.

A mother black bear with her four yearling cubs has been wandering around the Government Hill neighborhood of Anchorage, generally wreaking havoc as bears do. Fish & Game had determined that the most expedient course of action would be to terminate their lives before they hurt someone, but the outcry from the people has seemingly prevailed, at the personal request of our new governor.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150418/government-hill-bears-spared-request-governor



A mother black bear and her four cubs known for rummaging through trash in the Anchorage neighborhood of Government Hill were saved from euthanization on Saturday by a phone call from Governor Bill Walker to the commissioner of Fish and Game.

The governor inquired as to whether the bears, whose pending deaths inspired passionate public outcry from both inside and outside Alaska, could be relocated rather than shot, said Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten.

“It wasn’t like he told us not to go ahead,” Cotten said. “He wanted to know if there were alternatives and whether we could look into doing something else.”

The animals will likely be trapped and trucked south to Portage Valley, Cotten said.

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Alaska's governor issues pardon for family of bears slated for euthanasia. (Original Post) Blue_In_AK Apr 2015 OP
Great news! Read about them earlier :) AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #1
Yes, it is great news! summerschild Apr 2015 #7
I agree, think I need to hear positives every now and then, news made me smile ;) AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #11
nt SamKnause Apr 2015 #2
Hooray! shenmue Apr 2015 #3
Yay! NV Whino Apr 2015 #4
A momma's gonna feed her kids any way she can. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #5
Black Bear Road Trip!!! Woo Hoo!!! NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #6
Good. Problem bears around here are rehomed Warpy Apr 2015 #8
That's TERRIFIC! Good to know we win one now and again! calimary Apr 2015 #9
Good for the governor! okasha Apr 2015 #10
Well That Is Good News montanacowboy Apr 2015 #12
Sarah would have had a lottery for hunting them down Omaha Steve Apr 2015 #13

summerschild

(725 posts)
7. Yes, it is great news!
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:53 PM
Apr 2015

Any more, I see so much so wrong and so painful everyday that I feel totally helpless to change. I signed their petition earlier today asking the Governor to spare the bear family.

Probably had nothing to do with it - but if it's ok, I'm going to pretend it did. Ah, there, I feel a little better, for a minute, anyway....

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
5. A momma's gonna feed her kids any way she can.
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:51 PM
Apr 2015

And that's a lot of hungry cubs.

Hopefully they'll stay away from humans.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
8. Good. Problem bears around here are rehomed
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:55 PM
Apr 2015

I'm glad Anchorage is figuring out that it works. Bears are lazy buggers and won't be back.

calimary

(81,322 posts)
9. That's TERRIFIC! Good to know we win one now and again!
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 09:49 PM
Apr 2015

I signed that petition! Sometimes you do stuff even while thinking there's no use. Well, this is proof that's not true!

montanacowboy

(6,093 posts)
12. Well That Is Good News
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 10:27 PM
Apr 2015

glad to hear it, good for the Governor

After all it's the humans fault to begin with; we move them out of their habitat and then bitch when they have to eat our garbage to survive. It's a goddamn shame what we are doing to this planet.

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