Paul Irngaut, a wildlife adviser with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., a company that has set up hot - lines residents can use to
report bear sightings, commented that:
Not exact matches
I'll repeat what I wrote during the 2000 - 2002
bear market: at meaningful market lows, «the tenor of news
reports has always been something to the effect that «conditions are bad, expected to get worse, and there is no end in
sight.»
The latest investigation into ball lightning
bears him out, suggesting that magnetic fields trick the mind in half of all
reported «
sightings» (see «Mysterious ball lightning may be a hallucination»).
Sightings of
bears should be
reported directly to the DEEP at the above number.
The vast majority of these
reported conflicts are nuisance complaints about garbage cans, bird feeders, and simple
sightings of
bears near urban areas.
Some guide who often go to areas where groups of
bears can usually be seen feeding
reports 4 - 5x fewer
sightings this year.