[pct-l] PCT Bear Canister Loan Program - Request for Donations

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

My only reference is from talking to the bear management ranger we met in the backcountry in Kings Canyon and Yosemite rangers.

Last Labor Day we camped at the group campsites in Tuolumne. There was a bear and her cub making camp raids not just at night, but during the day, also. She managed to always find something left out, which was just enough reward to convince her to keep returning. One morning, after chasing her away from our camp, I talked to a ranger about her. We were watcing her circle back around to pick up her cub who was way up in a lodgepole. I asked him what would happen to her. He said they would probably shoot her next year. He thought that was a shame, she'd been around for a couple of years and he said he liked her. I was afraid to ask about the cub.

It's important to protect bears from our food.

Gary

---- giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote: 
> Can you cite a reference for the new rule of shooting-not-relocating bears?  I don't doubt what you say, just would like to learn a little more about it.  Thnx!
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: gwschenk at socal.rr.com 
>   To: Gerry Zamora 
>   Cc: PCT 
>   Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:26 PM
>   Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Bear Canister Loan Program - Request for Donations
> 
> 
>   ---- Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>   > What about bear bagging?  Or is this not accepted?
> 
>   No, not in the bear can REQUIRED areas. Bear bagging does NOT work in the national parks of California. The bears figured out bear
>   back in the '90s.
> 
>   These regulations are not in place to protect your food from the bears. The rules are in place
>   to protect the bears from your food.
> 
>   Once a bear learns humans equate to easy food, that bear has a death sentence over its head. They no longer try to relocate
>   human food habituated bears. They shoot them.
> 
>   Please give our bears a break when you visit California and carry a bear can where it is needed.
> 
>   Gary
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