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maybe not climate change
Published Mar. 29, 2008
This is an article in our newspaper about a Polar Bear in Fort Yukon...hundreds of miles away from its natural environment!! It had to be killed, but it seems to be some kind of sign....not sure what kind of sign, but some kind none the less.
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/28/polar-bear-killed-fort-yukon/
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Jackadoo, how ya doing buddy?? These bears are the only species that considers humans as food. My girlfriend said the only reason that they did not know what they were tracking (they, as me, would have thought it was a grizz that had woke up early, as they do wake up early once in a while) was that it was not carrying a COKE bottle like the one on TV!!! If it had had a COKE bottle, they would have probably not shot it...LOL In seriousness, it was going to eat the Cadzow boy if he hadnt of killed it.
Old Reb, hope you are having a good one. And yes, just like on South Park....Blame Canada, Blame Canada....LOL
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March 29, 2008 1:15 p.m.
Lolly, they will most probably take the organs and brain and study them. It is a shame that she had to be killed. It would have been interesting to have collared her and followed her travels, but Ft Yukon is a poor village with NO facilities nor equipment to do anything like this to any animal. With the danger of having it so close to the village, it had to be killed.
Bonnie Thomas is a friend of mine and a very intelligent lady. I worked with her uncle for my ten years at the Fort. They do believe that elders dying and then this happening are co-rellated. I do not know one way or the other. Strange things are happening, especially in our climate. They say that the climate change is more pronounced at the poles....I guess our progeny will get to see. The meat will stay in the village. I do not think I would care for polar bear meat, but they will eat it I am sure. Other natives downriver are asking that they send them some too!!
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March 29, 2008 1:10 p.m.
Thanks for reading this, I think it has some implications to the climate change debate. This is not the only polar bear that has been killed going south, but the other was in Noorvik in northwest Alaska. It is pretty far south for them, but not nearly as far south as Ft Yukon!!! Heck, before we know it, Fairbanks might be seeing polar bears here!! We are only 125 miles southwest of Ft Yukon. For a bear to come south of the Brooks Range is outside the realm of possibilities, but now it has been proven to have happened twice. I think they are coming south because they got caught on land by the historic ice melt in the Arctic Ocean this year, and they had to eat, and according to what I have read, this one was healthy, so it had adapted to living on land and not on the ice eating seals. It is something that I cannot even wrap my brain around!
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March 29, 2008 1:05 p.m.
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March 29, 2008 5:34 a.m.
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March 29, 2008 5:28 a.m.
I am not sure that one aberrant event is enough data to make a prediction. However, it is certainly news worthy
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March 29, 2008 5:01 a.m.
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March 29, 2008 4:58 a.m.
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March 29, 2008 4:54 a.m.
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