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Fw: [pct-l] RE M-80's

Wayne Dahl wrote <wayne@smtp.coryphaeus.com>
> I think the Forest/Park service should charge $1 or $2 for a permit.
> With the permit you are given a small packet of honey or something
> else randomly chosen that bears like and hikers commonly carry.  The
> honey or whatever is laced with ipecac (sp?), the stuff that make you
> throw up.  Every time the bears got someones food, they would eat this
> and get sick.  Bears are smart and may learn to stay away from
> backpacker food.  I know I do...
> 
Several years ago I proposed something very similar to the Park Service,
suggesting the use of Lithium Chloride, which had then just been used very
sucessfully in "taste averting" coyotes to dead sheep.  The Park Service
had in fact done a study on taste aversion with black bears in Yosemite and
came to the conclusion that bears were smart enough to detect the doctored
food. After an experience or two they would eat the untainted and leave the
rest. 

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