A few days ago, I essayed a piece on the finding of fresh bear 'poo'.
Well....today, some German forest 'adventurer' with a sensor camera....has the first real picture of a brown bear wandering through the woods of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
For geography location? Garmisch is the vacation 'magnet' for tourists into the far south of Germany...about 70 minutes driving SW of Munich. You'd best describe the entire region as heavily forested and mountainous. This is where you go in the winter period to ski.
The last known location? The Balderschwang valley area....about 85 km (a 20 hour hike for a human). So it's probably the same bear....just a week later.
The pro-environmentalist chatter? They are already hyping that harming the bear is definitely a bad thing.
At what point will BILD (the national newspaper) start a naming 'game'? I would suspect by this weekend....some suggestion box will be started. The last bear (killed in 2006), was Bruno. This bear might end being name Barney, Ben, or Bill (something about the B's, you know).
The divided nature of Germans? Well, on one side are the farmers and pet owners who reside in the region, and just can't accept bears in Germany. On the other side are the pro-environmental types who want multiple bears walking freely (even if someone ends up dead each year). This hype will progress, until some Bavarian political folks say enough....then hire up some Finnish guys to do some bear hunting (like last time).
Might be worth watching this for a while. As for the picture? You can go over to this site and see the bear image.
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