[pct-l] Bear Canisters

[Steve Courtway]

>Well said, Tom.  Cannisters are all about protecting the bears, not stupid
 humans and their food.

That statement was rather contradictory, as Tom's philosophy protects both 
the bears, as well as protecting folks from having bears tear into their 
tents while sleeping.

Calling the uneducated stupid has a superiority feel about it...

My theory is that Sierra bears have always had a much larger population of 
folks with little or no backcountry experience and education camping in 
their habitat.

Also, just as californians are characterized as bolder and crazier due to 
all that sunshine,  maybe the California blackie falls under the same 
category ?

s.c.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stillroaming" <pct at delnorteresort.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Bear Canisters


> Why are bears/humans a problem in very specific parts of the Sierras and 
> not
> the Pacific Northwest?
>
> Scott
>
>>>>>
> Well said, Tom.  Cannisters are all about protecting the bears, not stupid
> humans and their food.  If we stupid humans are protected as a result,
> that's a bonus, not the point.
>
> Our food is extremely high in fat content compared to what bears normally
> eat.  This not only makes them junkies for our food (like doing meth once
> and getting hooked), the higher fat content increases their birth rates,
> putting too many bears on land that can't support them.
>
> It is virtually impossible to re-train an adult bear to return to eating
> bear food once it's had human foods.  They can relocate them to the most
> remote places, and they will find their way to the nearest garbage can or
> human outpost, and go back to causing problems.  To the point that others
> have made, where they are not hunted, they quickly lose their fear of 
> people
> and think nothing of bluff charging humans to get what they want.  At this
> point they are considered dangerous and sadly must be (and are) killed. 
> Talk
> about humans screwing up the balance of things.
>
> This is such a travesty, I would rather see the idiot humans who caused 
> the
> problem in the first place killed.
>
> The rules are set up to TRY to keep nature natural.  If you can't accept
> that, instead of hiking you may as well go hunting somewhere where it's
> allowed, because you effectively do the same thing.  Not protecting the
> bears effectively leads to their demise. Carrying a bear cannister is a
> small price to pay to allow these magnificent creates to live as they 
> always
> have.  And, if you don't, and a bear does get your food, IMO you have the
> blood of dead bears on your hands.
>
> Dead serious and not bored of the topic,
>
> L-Rod
> <<<<
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