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If the trash receptacle is a distance from the building and playground, and the bears are not feeding during times when children are present, there is no imminent danger to the children.
I understand that you deal with this daily. I understand that you are there in the thick of it and I really respect law enforcement. I understand that for the most part your hands are tied by the law. I also understand that as of YET, and I stress YET,no one has been hurt. No disrespect meant here, but do you really beleive that these children are not in danger? This is not some person who can reason, hey as long as no children are here I can eat in the trash. These are wild, dangerous animals that can kill a grown MAN with one swipe of it's paw, never mind what could happen to a child, and you are really telling me that a bear, one that may have cubs, eating in a trash can next to a day care is not a threat to the children there. Would you want your child in that day care?
Maybe as a law enforcement officer you could PM Warrior and help her figure out all the people she could start contacting who may just do something about these bears. That might be a start for her, I am sure she would be happy to have some info on who to contact.
I also think that even if the people to contact about this day care are DNR and Waste management that it couldn't hurt to turn them into Child Welfare and the people who gave this daycare a permit to watch children. I would also call the media and have them out taping this daycares trash and the bears in it.
BEARS can NOT Tell TIME. They could very well come at a time that these children are out side playing and the running and yelling could trigger their pray drive. A mother with yearling cubs could see it as a perfect place to teach their cubs how to hunt.
This state and it's bear problem is a death by bear waiting to happen and if it doesn't happen this year then I will be surprised.
When this happens NOT IF but WHEN, then everyone who is in that state and did nothing is responsible for the injury or death of the peson/people it will happen too. Lets hope it isn't one of your family members hurt or killed.
I can not believe that this problem has went on as long as it has. Passing the buck is not the anwser. Someone has to take a stand and start the people with political power moving. The people who walk the fence and sit around saying this should be done that should be done but not by me it isn't my problem need to get up and start making noise just like those B.E.A.R people do. They get things done because they fight politics with politics and they SQUEAK and use the media to their advantage.
Praying in MI for your state and all the people in it that nobody is hurt or killed before some of those dead trouts in power remember that people are more inportant than a bunch of animals.
And just for the record I don't care if we are pushing them out of their habitat, that habitat has had people in it for a long time now and it is the protection of these bears that is a problem not the people living on that land.
Animal Management thru hunting is needed in every populated area whether people like it or not. And I stress Management thru hunting not hunting to extinction.
I couldnt have said it better.