Main reason for loss of sleep at night! Bears are pretty in photos but they come down from the wild to invade the residential dumpsters. That is not at all a pretty site. Raton uses community dumpsters on our residential streets for household garbage. A dumpster at about every 5-6 houses. This keeps the bears out of our yards, (usually). Yards of unfortunate residents are chosen by the bears as a picnic ground where they drag their garbage and sift through it to find the good stuff; and they do not clean up after themselves! :-\ Most residents empty their garbage out of the bags into the dumpsters, forcing the bears to do their sifting in the dumpster rather than strewing garbage all over the streets and yards. So everyone knows who doesnt do this since their garbage gets hauled out of the dumpster and displayed for all to see! People do check to see whose garbage it is. Usually those who clean it up are not those who fail to empty their garbage out of the bags. The dogs go nuts and bark incessantly when they as much as smell a bear. Other dogs, hearing dogs in the distance bark because other dogs bark. So it makes for very interesting nights in Raton, during summer and fall months. On rare occasion, an aggressive bear shows up and terrorizes residents and has to be put down. Thats always a sad day for Game Wardens and residents but no one wants to lose a child to a bear or to get mauled themselves. For the most part, City officials and residents are of the opinion that learning to live with the bears is the best thing to do. Contrary to popular belief, these bears are not forced out of their habitat by people building houses. Ted Turner alone owns enough wilderness land that connects to Raton, that it is the size of Rhode Island! 590,823 Acres and that is just a small piece of all the wilderness area in this region. Raton, New Mexico is set in the midst of wilderness on I25 at the base of the Eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains which are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Raton is 7 miles south of the Colorado border in northeastern New Mexico, with a population of appr. 7000. Living in Raton is not unbearable.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:44:13 +0000
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