Throwback Tuesday - Responding to Fear - Martin Wiles

Responding to Fear

The banging and clanging startled me from a restless sleep. I knew all too well what was happening.

I’ve seen their claw marks on trees, crouched in fear as they raided nearby campsites, walked up on one with cubs, and read signs warning of their presence. Black bears are no friends to campers and hikers. While a black bear’s natural response to human presence should be fear, negligence on the part of too many campers has often removed that fear. Rather than running, they rob, tease, and occasionally attack. Read more...

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Throwback Tuesday - Martin Wiles

Walking the Path

“Do black bears walk paths?” Perhaps a silly question to ask Google, but obviously I wasn’t the first to ask it to an internet search engine.

Certainly they do. Why wouldn’t they? Just as it’s easier for a person to walk a mountain trail than climb up and down the side of a mountain through crawling rhododendron and grasping laurel, so it’s easier for a bear to walk a trail as well. No grass, vines, or entangling underbrush. Surging roots are possibly the only thing to contend with. So the feeling of comfort I initially had that walking the trail would diminish my chances of encountering a bear didn’t hold water after all. Read more...

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