Re: [pct-l] Bears in the San Jacinto area

["Rob Langsdorf" <ljrob@hotmail.com>]

	According to the ranger in Fawskin there are over 750 bears in the San 
Bernardino Mountains now. Bears had been hunted out of southern california 
in the late 1920's. In about 1938 4 pairs were reintroduced into the San 
Bernardino Mountains for the purpose of redeveloping a hunting stock there. 
At the current time it appears that they need to allow the hunters to take 
more to keep these bears from becoming a problem. In recent years they have 
helped themselves to food left on picnic tables about 2 miles from the PCT 
in the Holcomb Creek area.

	I haven't heard whether the bears south of I-10 are there as a result of 
natural migration or not. There is some indication that the Cuyamaca Bear 
was brought up around humans and recently released in that area.

		Rob

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