Outdoor Writer

Probably a type of mud dauber wasp.

So in which community do you reside, Ponderosa or Colcord? And what were the "significant problems" caused in 2015? I'm reposting the above questions with hopes you'll get around to answering them so members here will know the REAL reasons for your lawsuit isn't about the wildlife. And I'll add another: Do you have a current 2019 hunting license? If not, did you have one in 2018?

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If they already know that, benign is the better kind of growth. The malignant type is the one to worry about. Hoping the biopsy shows benign for her.

Sharing is fine. It's up to you to separate the facts from the fiction -- especially how someone who has been dead for several years has hand-to-hand combat with a grizz. And what better "local pioneer" is there than his own son? 😉

That's what it's all about right there. Two great bucks for two pretty young gals.

Not according to the article: "The days of marauding bands of Apache were gone but life was still not easy working cattle in the rough mountainous ranges along the Blue River. Beef-killing bears were still numerous. One day in 1888 Fritz came across one of his range cows that been freshly killed by a grizzly." And it later goes on to say: "His son, Fred Fritz Jr., born in 1895 and a cattleman all his life, shared this story with me (author Marshall Trimble) several years ago. He took over the ranch on the Blue River after his father died in 1916. Fred was President of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association. He also served in the Arizona Legislature as both Speaker of the House and President of the Senate.

That happened in1888. Grizzly bears still existed in AZ long after that.

Another good read on my book shelves for those who enjoy such is Meet Mr. Grizzly - A Saga on the Passing of the Grizzly Bear by Montague Stevens (1859-1953). He was a Brit who graduated from Cambridge and moved to Catron County in New Mexico where he became one of the more noted grizzly bear hunters of the time. He used horses and hounds for most of his hunts, and after 1888, he did it with one arm after losing the other one in a hunting accident. He actually wrote the book, which was first published in 1943 by the University of New Mexico Press.

When I first began writing in the late 1960s, I was doing monthly articles for a magazine called Arizona Outdoors. One weekend, I was shooting in a metallic silhouette match at the Tucson Rod & Gun Club range and met a guy that was part of a group that was akin to the Bill Williams Mountain men. Difference was these guys really enjoyed playing their roles. Anyway, he invited me to spend a weekend with them atop Mt. Graham. I decided to go along to get photos and do an article on them for the magazine. It was a fun time. They all dressed the part with homemade buckskins and such, slept in teepees, cooked over open fires and had the usual turkey shoots and hatchet throwing contests. When I got back, I decided to do a bit of research for the article by reading several books on mountain men from the library. In one, there was a journal story about a guy who was mauled by a grizz and left to die by two of his companions. His name was Hugh Glass and he survived. A year or two later, the movie Man in the Wilderness with Richard Harris came out. I immediately recognized the plot as the tale about Glass. And then more recently Leonardo DiCaprio reprised the role of Glass in the Revenant. Of course, parts of the films were Hollywoodized from the original true story for consumer consumption, but they followed the tale close enough to recognize the origin of the screen play.

It wouldn't surprise me. Sycamore is a rugged area. I killed my lion there with Randy Epperson. We rode in quite a ways on horseback, spent the night in a USFS line shack and hunted the next day. Turned into a somewhat amusing and successful morning. When the dogs had the cat in the canyon, all we could do was sit on a rock ledge at the top and listen.

This is a real old poor quality scan of a 35mm slide. Northwest Territories on a caribou hunt. There were literally thousands flying over everyday on their way south. Many would land on nearby tundra to feed and spend the night.

You are correct. They are regulated as a migratory bird species such as doves, bandtail pigeons, etc., not like waterfowl. So you can use lead wherever it is permitted for other feathered critters that don't swim. Also note that no federal duck stamp is needed.

This is a fairly factual rendering: The Last Grizzly A couple of good books to read: Man & Wildlife in Arizona by Goode P. Davis Jr. The Grizzly in the Southwest by David E. Brown

So in which community do you reside, Ponderosa or Colcord? And what were the "significant problems" caused in 2015?

From the filing: "48. The Bar X cows degraded the resources in the Turkey/Colcord Pasture and caused significant problems in the Ponderosa and Colcord communities during those few months in 2015." Perhaps not establishing "communities" in such great wildlife habitat would have been a better alternative to avoid "significant problems."

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Mea culpa. You're correct. I was unaware of that recent change since I am no longer hunting. Thanks for the update.

He would be good to go anyway since he using a bow and not a firearm.

When I worked downtown at the Jewel Box too many years ago to even mention, we called the C96 a "broom handle" Mauser.

That's because he had a brandy new rod case to carry his reach-out-there rods in. 😎