Bear trap at Canon City,CO Riverwalk

I saw this bear trap on the Canon City Riverwalk yesterday. It portends a death sentence for many of the bears that succomb to the smell of the rotten meat or other 'goody' that is hanging in the back of the trap. Though bears that have not been trapped before (and tagged as 'problem bears') are moved far away to some area away from people, they are often found again either in the area or another one in a situation that causes the Colo Div of Wildlife to trap them again. That is because the bears that already occupy the location they are transported to do not take kindly to some usurper invading their territory. And many of the trapped bears are young bears. Then if they are trapped again, or found in a neighborhood, etc., they will be killed since Colorado has a two-strikes-you're'-out rule for these bears.

According to many wildlife agencies, many bears get started going after human food when they have sampled bird seed. Anyone who feeds seed to birds in areas with bears needs to quit when the bears are around so they don't contribute to that bear's ultimate death at the hands of a wildlife officer. Read about it here and more here