Well, I think it's really too bad they way things have changed over the decades. Back in the depression days of the 1930s, we camped out in tents in the campgrounds in Yellowstone Park and, every evening about supper time, bears (bruins - not grizzlies) came in and raided garbage cans - frequently within less than 100 feet away from our camp. We had "Campfire" meetings where the rangers educated us about Yellowstone and, more than once, I would physically bump into a bruin on a trail - surprising us both - invariable, we both instinctively turned and ran in opposite directions -
It seemed the only injuries bears inflicted were on visitors doing something dumb - I remember one woman got her index finger bit off because she wanted a picture of the bear trying to get away from her and she poked it in the butt so it would turn around so she could get a frontal shot.
Black bears that became problems were trapped and relocated a long ways out - and, if they returned "euthanized".
OTOH - Grizzlies mostly avoided human camps and stayed in the far out wild parts of the park. If any Grizzly started visiting campgrounds, they were instantly dealt with. I remember one night - we had a trailer (primitive by today's standards - but we slept off the ground) about 30-40 feet away from garbage cans and, in the middle of the night - a shooting war broke out not more than 10 feet or so from where I was sleeping. Rangers knew the grizzly was coming there and drove up in a pickup with two rangers standing in the bed with 30-06 rifles coming up on our side because there was no camping on the other side of the garbage cans - and they very efficiently ended her camp robbing career right then - safely.
It seemed the only injuries bears inflicted were on visitors doing something dumb - I remember one woman got her index finger bit off because she wanted a picture of the bear trying to get away from her and she poked it in the butt so it would turn around so she could get a frontal shot.
Black bears that became problems were trapped and relocated a long ways out - and, if they returned "euthanized".
OTOH - Grizzlies mostly avoided human camps and stayed in the far out wild parts of the park. If any Grizzly started visiting campgrounds, they were instantly dealt with. I remember one night - we had a trailer (primitive by today's standards - but we slept off the ground) about 30-40 feet away from garbage cans and, in the middle of the night - a shooting war broke out not more than 10 feet or so from where I was sleeping. Rangers knew the grizzly was coming there and drove up in a pickup with two rangers standing in the bed with 30-06 rifles coming up on our side because there was no camping on the other side of the garbage cans - and they very efficiently ended her camp robbing career right then - safely.
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