Joe Pylka wrote: > The expectation here in the NE is that bear/human encounters will increase > materially this Fall. The drought has pretty well cut down berry and other > crops they'll need to fatten up on. Here in NJ at least one "camp" bear had > to be destroyed already, and rangers are beginning to use the rubber bullets > to try to discourage them from entering some of the campgrounds along the > Delaware River. > On another note, some friends who'd been camping in Maine said that the > bears up there have already figured out that they have to bite to rope at > the base to get the food down from the branches........ > JP With all this talk of bears I felt the need to share a few seconds of footage shot in Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA Memorial Day weekend, 1999. http://microtech.com/beatty/bear1.mpg rb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 14:54:15 PDT
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