Following seven months of rigorous looking, a bear weighing 150-200 kilograms was killed in Snåsa on Friday.
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Two bears in the place were being granted a culling allow on the basis that numerous sheep ended up located killed. The hunt for the 2nd bear will proceed.
The bear that was culled on Friday attained its conclusion following four hrs of hard work by the hunting team. Nonetheless, there have been rough occasions in the past seven months:
– The terrain is quite tricky. Hilly with spruce woods, deciduous woods, streams, rivers. This summer season has been particularly humid and watery. Some days the water circulation was so high that we could not get out, Kåre Johannes Selliås (63), leader of the injury reduction team, tells VG on a tiny-scale telephone line.
The nosy 1st mentioned the matter.
Joy and reduction
According to Selliås, when the injury reduction crew acquired an picture of the bear from the wildlife digicam on Friday morning, they had renewed hope of finishing the mission.
– How do you come to feel now that a bear has been hit?
– Anything.
– Nearly anything?
– Emotions occur later on.
– How are they when they arrive?
– Joy of having succeeded as a crew and with the job we have in the direction of the Condition Administrator, who is our client. Specially now that we’ve been there for so long. Then there will be a lot more joy, Selliås replies.
Focus on the final result
The head of the hunting group tells VG that a overall of 17 hunters witnessed. Their age selection ranges from 20 to veterans in their sixties, like Selliås himself.
– They are among the oldest listed here, he suggests.
In the track record you can listen to the continual barking of a moose pet. There are moose and jämthund which are used as position pet dogs to information the bear. When the searching occasion gets shut more than enough, a pet is introduced.
– This is the searching message. We place up posters in an location and wander the canines, describes Selliås.
Moose puppy Hjallis was specified the honor of being a spitz dog.
– Are you scared whilst searching?
– No. The vital thing about this hunt is the sheep farmers. It is essential to the hunting team that we are successful, says the veteran hunter.
– Wolf hunters normally encounter reactions following taking down wolves. How are you bear hunters?
– No, it is really heading very well, Selliås concludes.
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