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Subject:Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
From:neil n
Date:Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:02:13 -0800

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu> wrote:

1)  more and more campgrounds have bear-proof food lockers so
> there will NOT be bear problems.  As they say: A Fed Bear Is A
> Dead Bear.  If one wanders through camp and finds nothing it
> might not come back.  If it does find something it will come back.
>
>

Good point. Hadn't thought of my Jedidiah CG experience in that light.

They are creatures of habit. I can attest to that. Like clock work, any time
the neighbours leave their garbage out the night before pickup, Mr. or Mrs.
Bear comes by, eats the garbage in my yard and leaves a coil of a calling
card.

;)

Neil.

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