And now for a little levity and good music.
I'm not one to "...drive the bears out of the wilderness" and I can see Lovett's point about seeing the bear in ourselves, but I'm not going to romanticize them. "they don't come no better than a bear"? No. They don't no more bearish than a bear. They are what they are.
That bears and big cats are being spotted in our forests seems to indicate that wildlife has become a viable ecosystem here again--to the extent that they don't feed off farms, livestock, or God forbid, people. I'm not going to complain about them. God put them in the world too. I just expect gov't not to hassle people who get sideways with them and have to shoot them in defence of people or property
