Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:00:59 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Greiner <greines@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Scott Greiner <greines@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
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I would like to ask the people that camp in bear country that bring dogs. Do
dogs help with safety or cause bears to come closer when sleeping in a Westy and
the dogs start barking when they hear the bears coming near the camp site? I am
talking medium to large dogs. We have a blank lab and a golden retreiver.
SOG
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 6:39:34 AM
Subject: Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
Re if they find nothing, they will not come back: In Yosemite, where campers
outside the developed campgrounds are required to use bear boxes and advised to
sleep 100 yards from their storage and cooking site, they are also told to leave
the bear box in plain site. The bears have learned that if the box is there, it
means that they can't get food. Here I am talking about the portable boxes that
we carry when backpacking. I have not camped in Yosemite, nor even near there
in many years, but I reviewed the regulations last year when I was considering
it. Chose another trip for other reasons. In Yellowstone, however, we were
told that even if we carry a box, we must hang the box. Same in Glacier, though
at some locations in Glacier, there was nothing to hang it from.
mcneely
---- neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 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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>
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