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Posted by SteveTheFolkie on June 6, 2007 at 7:47:36 am EDT
In reply to Bear canisters revisited (please) posted by Karman on April 1, 2007 at 10:49:50 am EDT

Aw man, bears don't "stink" - they're cool - the world would be poorer if there were not bears. One of the finest experiences I've had outdoors in the past few years was a couple months back being within 20 yards of a black bear sow and her cub - just watching the cub frolic around -

I've had bears in camp - I've lost food to bears (and had a rather hunger filled couple day hike back to the car as a result) - but I look at it this way - the bears were there first - I'm on their turf - so I modify my behavior to accomodate them ('cause if they get identified as being "problems" the consequences are far worse (displacement, relocation, death) than if I'm identified as a problem (kicked out of park)).

A neat campsite and proper technique (hanging food, proper disposal of waste, perhaps a portable electric fence (polar bears) allow the bears and us human types to coexist -

Let me put it this way - I've never met a bear that pissed me off enough for me to want to shoot it out of retribution - I can't say the same thing about people.

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