03-30-2012, 01:41 AM
Its my understanding that until the early 1900 bears were so numerous in my part of Fla that the first cattle ranchers were driven out- reports that bears and gators killed > 1500 head of cattle the first year of the first ranching family that moved in. (That was a local newspaper article I dont konow if it was true.) Bears were hunted here to maybe 25 years ago, when they were declared endangered. I is my understanding total state numbers were <700. It is my understanding that now bears number>3000 and their numbers are doubeling every 18 months. Kinda like Moore Law. Soon enough, with good managment Fla will again be a place where hunge bears can lay in the sun and eat berrys in the swamps all year long.