JD,
So you are saying all rules in YNP are the same throughout the US.
I don't think so?.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Foster" <jidd@JIDDWARE.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Bears, no offensive commentary included

> 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.