re: #261 Jadespring

The bush guys that I worked with poo poo’d the don’t thing when it came to grizzlies. They said if it’s going to attack it will. Run, don’t run doesn’t matter. It will git you. They said at least with running or walking away really quickly you feel like your doing something. :)

Yeah - I’ve heard that too about grizzlies. The thing with the black bears is really weird though, because the rangers are very specific that what you’re supposed to do is make a lot of noise and run at them throwing rocks. It’s just about the most counter-intuitive thing I can imagine. My first instinct was definitely not to piss them off. After a while you get the hang of it, to the point where I actually began to feel sorry for them, like I was hassling them.

The point is, though, that you need to keep them from getting habituated to humans, otherwise they need to be relocated or shot. It really pisses me off that bears have to be shot because humans are too stupid to hang their food properly.