Why Bears Have Started Killing Our Forests - My Goofy Hypothesis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2023
- Here is the original video about how the bears are killing our forests.
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In that video I show an escalating problem where bears have started killing our coastal forests. They are killing entire forests of coast redwoods, Douglas fir, grand fir, Ponderosa pine and a few other species.  They strip the bark off to get a taste of the sweet sap and cambium underneath. This kills the trees, and bears don’t do reforestation. They don’t replace them with new trees. In this video I talk about a hypothesis I have for why this relatively new bear behavior is quickly escalating. 
The berries are also crowding out the the normal stuff they eat.
Cambium is like a famine food in my mind, It will keep you going and that's about it.
I have never seen this. we have more bears than people in this part of alaska.
in our area most of them are in the alpine meadows and muskegs grubbing around this time of year.
This is mostly just a phenomenon these coastal forests where the trees grow very fast. Inland they don’t do it here. And it’s a learned behavior, in a lot of places they haven’t learned to do this yet.
@@WilsonForestLands That's gonna have long reaching problems. They depend on the canopy for their very existence.
no easy solution , cull the bears or let them eat themselves out of house and home.
This seems to be a solid hypothesis! Here in TN, Great Smoky Mountains National Park specifically, they burn the open fields periodically to control invasive species like the blackberries. Man, do the bears love them!
Good hypothesis, we can all understand why they love that fruit.
We bought a thorn less, varietal of this to plant round the house, the label never said it was fruitless as well 🙄
Nature knows how to bargain, that's for sure.
I’m not sure if there is anything more worthless than a berryless blackberry.
@@WilsonForestLands Maybe a thorny, but fruitless blackberry 😄
Yep you got me on that one. 😁
We have blackberry bushes in Britain only they've decided to infinitely hybridised so we just call them brambles. Often see different traits in one clump. Very aggressive growth. Uses the barbs/thorns to climb and ensnare. I'v seen it climb into and take over Hawthorne and hazel. Kills the tree eventually. Gotta buzz em back and dig the roots out. My arms are forever covered in scars from clearing work. Should have long sleeves but it get too warm for me. The natural counter supposedly is deer to trample the brush and hogs for eating the root, but those creatures are few and far between here so I couldn't say for certain.
Goats and deer eat the leaves and young shoots.
Interesting about the blackberries being non native, which I didn’t know. Spent most of my career being a land surveyor and have been all over California. Only two spots in the valley I’ve ever been to that have never been tilled or improved in any way. Both spots looked like the ground on D-day after the shelling had stopped it was so full of mounds and holes but with a pretty solid canopy of huge valley oaks. And impenetrable blackberry bushes probably twenty foot high in spots. Just assumed they were native like the oaks. Both spots being close to a water source. 👍🏼
Sounds completely plausible 🤔👍
We need an army of hungry goats to eat up the sweet plum berries...
That would take a lot of goats as extensive as the berry problem is. But if anyone could do it, it would be goats.
They've started experimenting using goats to clear out kudzu here in the south east. It grows about a foot a day in the summer and will blanket huge parts of a forest quickly. It's hard to eradicate with sprays and older established colonies are hard to eliminate at all. Goats might could be a good tool in the fight.
Good point
That is a good idea, Wilson snd makes sense to me..😁👍
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Interesting.
Winnie the Pooh ate honey but Yogi the bear did too!
According to today's cartoons they are gone now.
I think smokey ate fires.
The three bears just ate porridge.
None of that really supports my idea. Were there any bears who ate berries in cartoons?
We have blackberries in Australia too, they make great Jam.
That’s a good hypothesis. I’ve seen humans do crazy things to get their sugar (including myself).
Yep , looks like you're a bit south of me, but they do take out quite a number of our young trees around here also in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia.
There is a serious problem with our fruit being more sugary. zoos have stopped or lessened the amount of fruit given to animals because the animals have stopped eating the vegetables in favor of the fruit. It’s not healthy.
That sounds logical 👍😎😎
Invasive up in WA as well.
I agree. I think that the bears get hipper on all that sugar and start getting into stuff.
Now I'm worried about bears with diabetus!
Never seen a bear and there are no bears around here but I had a nightmare about a bear a week and a half ago a black bear so strange
The sweetest thing in the woods around here is......................ME.
Should I be worried about bears?
Oh yes you should be worried. You should probably stay inside where it’s safe. Unless you have a chainsaw on you for protection. And a tripod with a camera, because that would make good video. You going after a bear with a chainsaw.
Or a video of a bear chowing down on some old man jerky.
looks like porcupine damage to me
Just one more fix man
Bears eat beats..... :0
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"Winnie the pooh"....
Good 1...!
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In commercial timber stands its common practice to spray the forest with a broad leaf herbicide. That kills or retards all of the native and invasive plants - all plants, and leaves the desired, planted, trees to grow without competitition. The goal is to have zero understory as quickly as possible, and have the trees grow as fast as possible. This leaves the bears, deer, elk and other forest critters with very little food. When the forest is replanted its typically replanted with one species of tree vs a variety of trees and bushes that have different "ripe" seasons, and different output. The combination of monoculture forests and spraying leaves the bears with little choice. There have been bears here much longer than we have been managing our forest. its our practices that are causing the problem, not the bears.
That practice you describe is starting to take place in this area. But it’s a very small percentage of the forest. Most of this area is second growth that has come back after they logged the old growth before herbicide use started. This area is known by those of us who spend time here to have a lot of understory and a lot of feed for elk deer and bear. It’s one of the reasons populations of all these animals are so high in this area. Probably more understory now than there was before they originally logged the old growth. That will likely change to what you are describing but it hasn’t happened on a high percentage scale here yet. I actually have a video about that coming out shortly. If there is a lack of food for bears it’s probably more likely from the historically high population of bears, which I describe in the original video this video links to. That is a human caused problem. Changes in the land from the Himalayan blackberries is a human caused problem. All of it is human caused. And it is quickly escalating.
Sounds to me like you said, we have a different kind of addict now. And there addiction is sugar.
We humans have really destroyed the food chain animals in the wildness . Around here they timber and then they replant it all in pine trees. And the pine trees and there needles wipe everything out on the ground from growing. Leaving the forest animals with out a food chain, so they have to change the diet to something else or whatever they can survive on. But I do think you are on the right path.
Interesting, seems highly likely. What would humans do if we took our sugar away
That is an interesting question. If you do a search for kids of Walmart throwing tantrums videos, that might give you some idea of what it would look like.
Well time for more hunting tags.
Oregon, California and Washington are moving in the opposite direction. More toward anti hunting.
So true and so sad. Bears are a big problem in my orchard
A serious problem … a reasonable hypothesis. Sugar addition in bears. Next step … diabetes in bears, with all its complications. The ill health, blindness, and death of bears a reasonable conclusion?
The bears around us get into garbage and rummage around houses and come up on decks. If a fellow decided to do some legal and ethical bear population control, let's say that fellow happened to be you, would you eat the bear? Many would. Others say never. I'm on the fence.
Perhaps others are hungrier than you?
the problem is the number of hippies....
I think your hypothesis is weak.
That being said, I remember when I was younger and my brother ate all the chocolate chip cookies. A few days later I was licking some bark I pulled off a maple tree.