Comments on: We Killed a Bear

By: Lieselot

Lieselot — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 18:38:46 +0000

That’s so sad 🙁 I’m going there tomorrow for 3 days, and can’t wait to explore the area. I can’t believe that people leave food, poor bear. Thanks for writing the post and reminding people how important it is taking care of those things!

By: Nathan Lamb-Yorski

Nathan Lamb-Yorski — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:36:27 +0000

The headline is kind of disrespectful to the experienced avid hikers who respect the environment. Needless to say the individuals that don’t clean up after themselves hopefully understand that the outdoors is sacred. You wouldn’t leave a mess in your front yard. Why would you do that in the back country ? I guess we aren’t as smart as we think as species. Needless to say this is a foot in the right direction. People need to be educated before setting a foot into our parks, peaks, and the outdoors in general. Excellent article

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:50:12 +0000

The really sad thing is that it doesn’t take any skill to keep your food away from bears in Garibaldi. You don’t have to make your own tree cache in this park (and you should not here) as food caches are provided for all campers to use in all of the official camp grounds in Garibaldi. This bear was killed because of a lack of education, laziness or (as in many cases I see these days with litter left on trails) selfishness and a general disregard for others and our environment.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:47:15 +0000

We kill many bears, whales, ants, birds, wolves, elephants, other humans, it’s what we do best! we are a parasitic species that has ruined this planet! This shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise.. We kill shit all the time, just as long as we get what we want. I know this sounds really negative and pessimistic but it’s the truth.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:03:28 +0000

In reply to Xtine. I completely agree!

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:54:29 +0000

I’m pretty late joining the conversation but felt a need to comment. It’s been a rather unprecedented year in my small rural community this year with Grizzlies and an unusual amount of black bear activity. The safety of the beautiful animals has had the community divided, as, for some reason, some people seem to forget that living at the base of an uninhabited mountain means we’re living in the bears country. Anyways, that is another topic. My thought on this topic is to wonder why there is not a Park Attendant that lives in the campground all season. I know that there is one at Kokanee Glacier during the season (they rotate 2 weeks on 2 weeks off). It would be nice to see this at all Provincial Parks in the remote camping areas. I think they could have huge rolls in educating people of best and safe practices and showing them the results of not following these practices. I’m going to try to be optimistic in this last statement that I think (hope) most people just truly do not understand the consequences of their actions and once they do understand they will do better in the future.

By: WCC

WCC — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 04:07:40 +0000

Does promulgating a ecologically conscious ethos have to involve this holier-than-thou-I-can-totally-cast-the-first-stone-because-I-am-without-sin attitude of contempt towards people not already on board? Are the people not on board going to read this blog, or is this blog actually part of the problem, because those of us who are troubled by bears being killed because of careless actions by humans get to feel like we have done something by reposting this and getting in on preaching to the choir, as opposed to pushing for more stringent enforcement of the rules regarding waste disposal by BC parks officials, going to the park and having potentially uncomfortable conversations with people that are contributing to the problem, or just organizing groups to go and clean up trash?

If we don’t go to Garibaldi Lake regularly and clean up trash/inform campers/hikers, we killed this bear and will kill more, because we could have saved their lives, but didn’t want to make the effort.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:55:33 +0000

In reply to Anton van Walraven.

“… remarkedly uneducated and stupid behaviour… ” to describe people who leave for the lake late?!?! This makes me laugh. My 20 + years in the backcountry allows for me to leave later. A week before you were up there my husband and I got on the trail at 530 (after work). We were at the lake by 8, in the light, set up our camp, and ate our dinner in the shelter. We were in bed by 915, with our food stored in the shelter. Remarkedly uneducated and stupid, indeed! (Eyeroll). Your comment makes you sound self righteous and ignorant!

By: Anton van Walraven

Anton van Walraven — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:22:28 +0000

In reply to Anton van Walraven. The 'lake' is Garibaldi lake and the 'parking' is the parking at the Garibaldi trailhead.

By: Anton van Walraven

Anton van Walraven — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:21:02 +0000

I am not surprised about this.
I was up at the lake with my daughter on Thurdsday August 4th. Half way going down at around 4.30 pm, there were still droves of folks with big back packs, and clearly not experienced, going up. They were not going to make it before or be there very close to dark. Setting up camp and cooking in the dark. Remarkably uneducated and stupid behaviour. When we arrived at the parking at 10 to 6pm there was still a couple (with big back packs) getting ready to go up.
I am sorry for this bear that had was killed because of people just not understanding what they are getting into. I would like the media to bring attention to this, instead of only reporting bear attacks, which most of the time are not understood what triggered them.