One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island
8 points by abscond 3 hours ago | 2 comments
  • AlbertCory 32 minutes ago |
    I've been up REAL close to grizzlies, on Kodiak Island [1]. However, that has a population of 13,000 [2], whereas Vancouver has 840,000, according to that article.

    That means on Kodiak, the bears have the land mostly to themselves, and humans aren't much of a threat to them. You wouldn't try this in Yellowstone, where fatal bear-human encounters happen regularly. And probably will on Vancouver, too.

    [1] https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/travel-disasters

    [2] https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-a...

    • wk_end 6 minutes ago |
      It’s important to distinguish “Vancouver” (a city on the mainland) and “Vancouver Island” (an island off the coast).

      Vancouver Island has a population nearing a million, but half of it live in the greater Victoria area, which occupies a tiny little peninsula and change on the southern tip. Most of the island - which is huge, approximately four times the size of Kodiak Island, for what it’s worth - is pretty wild and untamed.