Jeremiah Gardner
70:47 - 71:20
“So at what point is a bear damaging the borough's property, and at what point do we have the authority to euthanize?”
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- Jeremiah Gardner
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- 70:47 – 71:20
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From the transcript
I'm probably going to dispatch that bear. I don't want to, I don't want to take care of it and have to surrender it to the state. That's not something I want to do, but it's what would happen. So at what point is a bear damaging the borough's property, and at what point do we have the authority to euthanize? Because we are going to have some problem bears, and if we're going to move the goalposts and, as you put it, uh, adaptive, um, management problem solving.
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