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I think it's time that we start to make room once again for the animals we almost drove to extinction. This would be a good, controlled setting to see if we can do this responsibly.

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For good reason. Brown bears eat people. You are no more than a slow meal to them. Coexistence means accepting that people will be eaten by bears or bears will be killed by people defending themselves. I think it is worth noting that native tribes prepared for war if the needed to kill a brown bear.

> Attacks on humans, though widely reported, are generally rare.

Brown bears prefer salmon to geezers who talk big, for certain.

Says somebody that has never lived where brown bears do. They can and will gladly eat you if you are the best meal around. Salmon are only around for maybe 1/4 of the year.

How is Vancouver "controlled"? The grizzlies can obviously swim back to the mainland if they don't like it.

> we almost drove to extinction

In the Lower 48, yes. Not in Canada and Alaska.

Some of them can, if they are in good physical condition. There's a reason why there haven't been any females who swam across until now.

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