Karl Wolz wrote:

>Mark,
>
>Then only place I've been given a hard time re: bear/food storage is in
>(you guessed it) California STATE Parks.
>
>Karl Wolz
>

Doug in Calif wrote:

>This is EXACTLY why I posted the albeit somewhat controversial post about
>bears and "respecting nature".
>
>
<snip>

>So you better read,
>read, and read, up on the "rules" before you tread into Yosemite campgrounds
>for sure, which is where most of these "rules" seem to be the worst.
>Yosemite has been ruined by over population and now has become so over run
>with people and rules its disgusting.
>
>Doug
>
>
Not to beat a dead bear, but it is Yosemite *National* Park (YNP).  If
you have a problem with Yosemite, you've got a problem w/ a branch of
the Feds (http://www.nps.gov/).  State parks are a completely different
entity under separate management and regulation (http://www.parks.ca.gov/).

Later, its beer(not bear)-thirty here.
Cheers,
JD

PS Strangely enough, after all this discussion I saw my first bear cub
here in the area just today on my drive home.