Good one, Bob! You got me! On a serious note though here is a true report of a bear attack in The Smokies some weeks back for any of you that might have missed it. >From National Park Service - Morning Report Monday, May 22, 2000 http://www.nps.gov/morningreport 00-213 - Great Smoky Mountains NP (NC/TN) - Fatal Bear Mauling A woman from Cosby, Tennessee, was killed in a bear attack yesterday evening. The woman and her companion entered the park around noon to fish along the Little River. The man last saw her around 2 p.m. when the couple separated and he went fishing. He went to look for her about an hour later, came upon her day pack, then found her body off the trail. There were two bears at the body, a large adult female and a yearling. Another fisherman hiked to Elkmont campground to report the incident around 5 p.m., and rangers were on scene at 6:05 p.m. Two bears were in the area and rangers shot and killed them. The bears are being taken to the University of Tennessee for necropsies to ensure that they were the animals involved in the attack. As a precautionary measure, park officials have closed backcountry campsites 21, 23, 24 and 30, all of which are in the Little River drainage. The woman's name is being withheld pending notification of family members. A news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. this morning. This is the first-ever fatality from a black bear attack to occur in the park. [Bob Miller, PIO, GRSM, 5/21] --- Bob Matter Hammond, Indiana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 19:31:31 PDT
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