The science of scent, bears, and ways to severely restrict odor . . . Have a fire at night? Bears know that humans with food have fires It’s hard to imagine that at close range, a bear won’t be able to pick up the scent of a food bag Maybe these bags make odors invisible to bears and they wander off flummoxed at finding humans out in the woods with no food…again, until you start cooking I use a Bearikade
Bear and Food Storage Policy in the National Parks Keeping human food away from bears worked Keeping food away from bears has also saved our bumbling, adorable fuzzballs from being put down This is important not just because they’re cute, but because since 1975, grizzly bears have been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act A fed bear is a dead bear: Feeding a wild
Bear Canisters: Design, Use Cases, and Reviews Bear encounters increase when bears get a taste of human food, endangering both humans and bears In our online course about Ursacks, we present important research that correlates human-bear conflict with food-conditioned bears Effective food storage devices and techniques are critical to minimizing conflicts, attacks, and fatalities – for
Warding Off Bears - Backpacking Light Black bears in California can usually be treated like troublesome dogs but with food-stealing skills even Yogi and Boo-Boo would envy In Canada they apparently are more of a personal threat but less wily when it comes to stealing food I'm amazed if AT bears can be fooled by a single-bag food hang
Bear attack, Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, successful use of handgun Law enforcement in Alaska leans away from 9 mm and towards 40 or 10mm or 45 in their pistols, not for bears, but because winter clothing (on humans) absorbs quite a bit of bullet energy (a decent backstop for pistols can be made from 40 layers of fleece)
Anyone use a horn for bears? - Backpacking Light I recently read the book The Essential Grizzly: The mingled fates of men and bears Very current and a great read from Doug’s fascinating story-like accounts of “the days in a life” take on 3 different bears that exist in the lower 48 to his wife’s broader scope look at how men and bears are co-existing
Bears: What to do with the clothes you cook in One big factor is if the local bears are habituated to the people food equation If they are, more precautions make sense I think it's important to remember that an average of about 1 person a year is killed by bears, and close to 20,000 people a year are murdered and over 40,000 killed on the roads Bears DO commonly destroy gear and raid food
a Tasar Gun for Black Bear Protection? - Backpacking Light With bears, noise and proper campsite foodhandling seems to be key… all is is a hail mary And bear spray is fairly effective as last resort Plus, tasers are fun to use on your partner when bored on graveyards and people are getting tired… peps them right up!
Carrying food in bear country? - Backpacking Light Bears approach people often I've had grizzlies (and black bears) run at me many times Virtually always it was because they didn't know what I was and were curious or they hadn't seen me at all and they were just loping cross-country They always ended up hurrying or running away