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Through this administration's rule, such treasured lands will now allow sport hunters to lure bears with greased donut bait piles to kill them, or crawl into hibernating bear dens to shoot bears and cubs, shooting hibernating mama and baby bears is not the conservation legacy that our national parks are meant to preserve and no way to treat or manage park wildlife. – Theresa Pierno	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that. – Seth Winter	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's almost like a bear hibernating in a cave, they do sleep for over a whole day. When they do wake up, there's very minor movements and very little activity, and then they just go back to sleep. – Ivan Vicente	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It just underscores the whole dilemma with this thing, there is an issue with how we treat this animal ... he should be hibernating and not on display. – Mayor Paul Esser	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The emissions are totally in line with requirements at the refinery, the project is not hibernating, it's moving forward, and based on the conversations we've had (with the government) we are very optimistic that we will be processing more very shortly. – Jorge Celestino	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Through this administration's rule, such treasured lands will now allow sport hunters to lure bears with greased donut bait piles to kill them, or crawl into hibernating bear dens to shoot bears and cubs, shooting hibernating mama and baby bears is not the conservation legacy that our national parks are meant to preserve and no way to treat or manage park wildlife.

– Theresa Pierno

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that.

– Seth Winter

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's almost like a bear hibernating in a cave, they do sleep for over a whole day. When they do wake up, there's very minor movements and very little activity, and then they just go back to sleep.

– Ivan Vicente

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It just underscores the whole dilemma with this thing, there is an issue with how we treat this animal ... he should be hibernating and not on display.

– Mayor Paul Esser

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The emissions are totally in line with requirements at the refinery, the project is not hibernating, it's moving forward, and based on the conversations we've had (with the government) we are very optimistic that we will be processing more very shortly.

– Jorge Celestino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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