Bear-trapping interference case appealed
The 30-day jail sentence for one of two women involved with tampering with a bear trap in Incline Village is being appealed.
Incline Village Justice of the Peace E. Alan Tiras sentenced Season Morrison, 35, of Reno earlier this month to 30 days in jail.
Her mother, Cheryl Morrison, 63, of Truckee received a suspended sentence, fine, community service.
They were convicted in May.
Their attorney, Bradley Paul Elley, has filed an appeal in Morrison’s case.
“Obviously I and my clients are upset with the decision and that’s why I’m appealing,” Elley told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
The way I feel about this ,there should be no traps ,let bears be bears If you dont like this comment I dont care,Let them be bears ,and let these ladies free,Because it will be done over again ,and again ,
Don’t screw with bear control efforts – they’re protecting everyone, even the ignorant like y’all.
That said, 30 days seems a bit excessive. Although if their attorney bases his entire appeal on the fact that they’re upset with the decision, it’s not likely to impress the judge much.
Either way, one hopes that they’re through trying to control their neighborhood bears with Zen, meditation, and good thoughts. Bears don’t seem to be much into that kind of nonsense. Quit feeding them and they’ll find somewhere else to go. After all, they’re not stupid, like many of their human supporters.
They don’t respect the law so they are being sentenced accordingly. That is the part they don’t like. Nuisance bears are becoming real problems and have to be dealt with and with the drought limiting food and the other story of a bear charging someone without fear is why they are dangerous at all times. A woman was attacked and mauled this year already on the coast. Over protected predators will become more aggressive and attack versus being afraid. This is part of the problem with people thinking they can control wild animals and make them tame by over protecting them until they are dangerous.
Copper
You said it well.
The guy in Camino seems aware of why bears were in his yard, but one must ask how long has he lived there and why something as simple as not making his garbage available never occurred to him.
Deny access to trash as a primary food source and 95% of the problem will take care of itself.
The problem with these bear traps are;
(1) they’re put out too quickly – often enough without F&G following their own three strike process, and at the request of angry owner’s demands ( who originally caused the problem by attracting the bear nuisance)
(2) It’s likely enough the wrong bear or bears ( Mom with Cubs) is trapped and wrongly tagged and eventually euthanized.
The three strike process “first step” is the F&G Officer lecturing the owners on how to keep trash and food smells from attracting the bears. I’m not hearing this happens enough, and this first warning should precede the owners being fined heavily if they
continue attracting the bears. These people also endanger all their neighbors to suffer break-ins with their sloppy bear attractions.
“People are the problem, Not the Bears”
People are the problem , Yep ,You are so right ,Education PAMPLETS needs to be put on every door ,WAKE UP.