Are you saying pot was not created by G-d?
And I don’t know that there are more bears in the US than anytime in the past. Deer, sure. But bears? Maybe if you add in Alaska after the Seward purchase, but sounds “dewbious”
Funny. Just yesterday, down to my village store, I was reading the headlines for this month's feature articles in The Maine Sportsman telling how the bear population is on the increase here.
I'm an ole granny, but I could take you to where I guarantee you'd see a bear in it's natural habitat on any given day...
A lot of areas are being forced to consider reinstating hunting for bears and other large predators, for the simple reason that they're encroaching back into populated areas. I know that there are TONS of wild turkeys in my area, same with deer. And I also know that there are now mountain lions in the area, and they're here because of all the deer! I didn't think that mountain lions were ever really native to the Kansas City area, but they've been seen near the KU campus, in Lawrence, and there are lots of caves in North KC, and it seems that they like those.
For years people had tried to convince the MO Department of Conservation that there were mountain lions running around here, but they just "poo-poo'd" the reports. Then, a few years ago, during morning rush hour, a deer went bounding across I-435 closely chased by a mountain lion, which was hit by a truck and killed. Sort of hard to deny at that point.
Mark