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[CMountainDave@aol.com (CMountainDave@aol.com)]

So Tom, what are we going to do if bear canisters don't work? Give up and 
leave the woods for the bears? Yeah I know, you believe that canisters WILL 
work, but given the long, long history of NPS and NFS incompetence (I'll 
rattle off a few to make my point - allowing Yellowstone to be incinerated - 
ditto for Los Alamos, clear cutting, overcrowding in Yellowstone, Grand 
Canyon, Yosemite Etc Etc, polluting Crater Lake, shoving once outlawed user 
fees down our throats, dumping problem bears into the back country for 
backpackers to deal with, the unnecessary mountain goat removal in Olympic 
National Park, carving car sized holes in Sequoias.) As far as who caused the 
bear problem, the people in charge once created open garbage dumps to 
actually ATTRACT bears so that people could see them. And you trust them now 
with their new found agenda of creating revenue from recreation? Let's face 
it. With the pay the government offers, they get the bottom of the barrel 
when it comes to college graduates and the results are obvious -- nearly 
deliberate malpractice. I've given up on them. They're credibility is shot as 
far as I'm concerned and it will take several decades of doing things right 
to get it back. No Tom, the NPS created the bear problem. If nothing else, 
they should have known that people make mistakes, are lazy, stupider than 
bears, etc., and planned around it. As far as Whitney Portal is concerned, 
the game is over. Unless they take aggressive action to deter the bears, they 
might just as well shut the place down for the next twenty years because 
it'll take at least that long for the bears and their offspring to lose their 
memories of cars being a source of food. (sounded great in theory -- food out 
of sight is out of mind but old Murphy was right again -- the bears can still 
SMELL that food in there)
   So once again, assuming that bear canisters don't work, what then???? 
(Seems to me that frustration and irritability go hand in hand.) Another 
harebrained scheme to outwit the Yogis out there? (smarter than the average 
bear and average Park manager, for sure.
  The obvious, no brainer solution is to make the bears fear us by any and 
all non lethal means. What on earth is wrong with that? Seems like it would 
be at least worth a try instead of forcing us to carry at least two bear 
canisters (3 if you count garbage and toiletry storage) I say let the bears 
start humming "Who let the dogs out." But I'll bet that the next thing the 
NPS will do if bear canisters don't work will be a series of monkey see 
monkey do, knee jerk, long term trail closures and/or camping bans 
  I bet a lot of people don't WANT bears to be afraid of us. That way they 
can get up close and gawk and make a spectacle out of them like they did in 
the good old days around garbage dumps
   And to Margo and boyish hormones. Look who's calling the kettle black!!  
Seems like members of the fairer sex have their own monthly hormonal problems 
to deal with. And keep our rockets in our pockets?? How phallic is that!! 
LOL!! (you do make a valid point, though)