{"id":28,"date":"2006-07-12T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-07-12T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T03:44:00","slug":"young-grizzly-returns-to-refuge-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/young-grizzly-returns-to-refuge-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Young grizzly returns to refuge again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Boo, the young grizzly bear who has escaped twice from a mountain resort near Golden in southeastern B.C., is once again in custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Kicking Horse Mountain Resort spokesman Michael Dalzell says the four-year-old male bear returned on the weekend and walked back into his enclosure voluntarily when staff opened the gate for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Boo had escaped on June 25, breaking down a large steel door and clearing a series of fences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">That escape came just the day after he had returned from 19 days in the wild following a previous breakout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">On both occasions he was seen in the wild with female grizzly bears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Dalzell says he hopes Boo will stay put, now that the four-week grizzly mating season is over, at least until next spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">He says the bear appears to have lost weight, and probably returned because there&#8217;s food and it&#8217;s safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Last week, B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner suggested that the bear be turned loose wearing a GPS collar, so that the public could keep track of him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Dalzell says that&#8217;s still under discussion with the ministry, and the collar is on order. He also says there&#8217;s been no decision on the possibility of surgery to neuter the young male.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">The bear was orphaned in northern B.C. in 2002 when a hunter shot his mother. The hunter was fined $9,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocky-peak.com\/photos\/boo-bear.jpg\" alt=\"boo the grizzly bear\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Boo the grizzly bear is shown in this undated handout photo. Boo has a taste for freedom that apparently wasn&#8217;t satisfied the first time he broke out of his man-made den at a Golden, B.C., resort in search of a girlfriend. Just a day after his first, two-week romp in the wild ended with a tranquillizer dart and a helicopter ride, the grizzly pulled an even greater escape.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Photo courtesy of Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.com\/\">CBC News<\/a> &#8211; Tuesday, July 11, 2006 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Frocky-peak.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F07%2Fyoung-grizzly-returns-to-refuge-again.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boo, the young grizzly bear who has escaped twice from a mountain resort near Golden in southeastern B.C., is once again in custody. Kicking Horse Mountain Resort spokesman Michael Dalzell says the four-year-old male bear returned on the weekend and walked back into his enclosure voluntarily when staff opened the gate for him. 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