Just bring along a California bear lover who thinks that he can communicate with them. They will be too busy dining on him to bother your food.

Ok, that was bad. Bad Mark, no donut.

But seriously that story does serve as a reminder to us all that no matter how familiar bears become with us, they are still wild animals to be treated with respect.

Mark in AK - where we feed tourists to the bears

> At 11:42 PM 8/17/2004 -0700, alan sinclair wrote:
> >In places that have bears, warning signs say not to keep any food in
> >the car, with photos of vehicles which have been "can-opened" by
> >bears.
> >
> >How do list members handle this problem?  How do we keep bears
> out of
> >our '81 westie bedroom?  It wouldn't be fun to wake to a burgling
> >bear, nor to have a door pulled off.
> >
> >thanks for any advice
> >Alan
> >(off to the Sierras in a day or two, and hoping to keep food on-
> board)
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