RIPPLE SALVO… #871… HUMBLE HOST HAS LOST FOCUS… FROM EVERY CORNER COMES BAD NEWS–GRIZZLIES ARE MISBEHAVING (doing what comes naturally) AND SUFFERING DIRE CONSEQUENCES… The scorecard on dead grizzlies has tumbled my gyro… Another one was executed in Eastern Idaho yesterday. He bit three campers as they slept next to their food-filled knap-sacks. Last month the Yellowstone wildlife folks had to put down a second-offender Mama Griz that had chased and bit two guys who got between her and her two cubs. Now Mama’s gone and nobody knows where the cubs went so the write-off of Ravus Ursi adds three to a 2018 loss of 12 of the Yellowstone area grizzlies. Losing 15 out of 1,500 may not seem like a major loss to Mother nature’s inventory of the beautiful beasts. But my lot has been to spend more than 60 years responding to “Brother Bear” and as a result my affinity for the species means the news has put me in a spin and out of commission. I’m headed for the back deck, a touch of brandy and some star watching…
Remembering Rolling Thunder will resume on the morrow.
By the way… When you visit the woods of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and all parts north don’t take your food to bed with you, and don’t get between Mother Bear and her cubs.
The Bear will return to duty tomorrow… Lest we forget… Bear