It hurts to write it; it hurts even worse to witness the impending bear die-off this summer, and do nothing.
Yet the best way to deal with Mammoth’s starving bears is to let nature take its amoral, cruel course. As painful as it might be, the very best thing for the bears is to let them die in their own way.
Starvation is nasty business, but it’s better than putting bullets in their brains. Certainly it is better than to keep them on the razor’s edge of life by handing them freebies, only to watch them become problem bears later.
Jonny Walker's "Last Call" — Beer, Bluesapalooza, blues and my dad
August 13, 2012
I wandered through the labyrinth of trees at Sam’s Woodsite last weekend to the beat of the music.