After a harrowing encounter with a grizzly bear that broke into their home, one woman is glad her husband is a skilled hunter. Early Sunday morning, Niki
Traverse’s dog wouldn’t stop barking like mad, prompting her to wake up
and check to see what was wrong. The Traverses live in British Columbia,
Canada, in a mountain region, CBC reports.
As soon as she entered into the kitchen, she saw a male grizzly bear
feasting on cat and dog food in a cupboard after it had climbed through a
window left open because of the heat. Niki immediately ran back to the bedroom and woke up her husband Mark, who then brought out his hunting rifle. “I went to the kitchen, turned the light on and where the bear was, he came at me and I took a shot,” Mark told CBC. “By the time I reloaded the gun, he took a step more towards me, and I
took another shot and he hit the floor, and he was still moving, so put
another one in him, and that was the end of him,” he added...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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