[pct-l] Bear Encounters, Attacks Grow

[calliger@infolane.com (R.J.Calliger)]

At 1:58 PM -0800 8/8/01, Reynolds, WT wrote:
>>From the LA Times, Tuesday August 7 page B-8
>
>'Black bears are increasingly displaying a bit of ursine bravado.... The
>black bear population has doubled in the last 20 years. They now range south
>almost to the Mexican border..... Last year 124 problem bears were
>killed.....They can rip off a car door in 15 seconds......On July 29 Barbara
>Morales was sitting at a table during a lunch break when a young bear bit
>her on the arm. 'The bear was not scared of me in any way"....In Kings
>Canyon Sherman Lambert was [clallenged] by a 250 pound black bear. Lambert
>[attempted to scare the bear off] but the bear stood its ground without
>fear....'
>

This sounds like my last enounter where I had to wave a flaming stick
around right in the bear's face before it would desist coming at me...

wrist rocket sleeps with me now...girlfriend gets one as well!
oh- she still can sleep with me :-)))


R