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I have admired his work with and on behalf of bears for many years. Thanks for this tip!

Ah, she's probably just another airy dreamer like this layabout: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish...

I'm inclined to give the head of the Forest Service a pass on this one, given what this article has to say – YMMV. Hope the link works for you folks: Journalists slam Forest Service over wilderness permits

When the lump from that baseball subsides, you might want to reconsider your post. You can take all the pictures of trees you want. You just can't enter a wilderness area for the primary purpose of making a buck off your tree pictures without meeting the same requirements as the other folks who...

Smart guy. I've edited the post. :p

Well, this is mildly amusing. I just went up our driveway to the mailbox and discovered fresh bear scat in THE DRIVEWAY, replete with an acorn and some white pine nuts. :D The bear is apparently on the smallish size, might be the same one I saw in our driveway a few weeks back. Scat picture to...

This is a refinement of an existing regulatory regime to add filming. As much as I might hate to see the directive's implementation generally, it's tough for the Forest Service to defend in court a distinction between commercial photography and filming from the other commercial activities that...

They do have a fondness for beavers – saw one trying its best a few years back. And a brown/grizzly will excavate a very large hole, flinging big rocks to the side, just to get hold hold of a single ground squirrel. I figure the squirrels must be the ursine equivalent of crack, given the...

Black bears took to the trees as an evolutionary adaptation a long time ago, to protect their cubs from predators and to avoid conflicts with larger bear species. As a result, if you have lots of large trees and reliable food sources, you probably have black bears living near you. People in some...

Directions for using the spray are here: Bear Spray Demonstration Knowing when to use it depends on your ability to read bear behavior. If the bear is coming fast and low and quiet, hit it with the spray as soon as it is in effective range of the spray. It is intent on doing you harm. If it...

+1 on the revision in my attitude toward carrying my spray here in New England. I've been watching this small trend in behavior for some time. I am solo 99.99% of the time I'm in the woods, apart from dog walks with my wife. And if you came here and noticed the bear pictures on the walls and the...

I find the creation of this thread by a CURRENT winter record holder to be an achievement worth recognizing as well, especially in this day and age. ;) [/edit]. :o

Fish and Game has the top level authority for all inland SAR in the state. However, that doesn't mean they are actually involved in every instance. Their typical mission starts when local law enforcement or a local fire department decides F&G's expertise and resources are needed and calls them...

No, actually, the authorizing statute only authorizes recovery of expenses incurred by the Fish and Game Department. This one only involved local authorities and state park personnel. "206:26-bb Search and Rescue Response Expenses; Recovery. – Notwithstanding RSA 153-A:24, any person determined...

Yes, I'm flogging a supine equine, but you should know this anyway: Four years ago I left the then twenty-six year old VE-24 at a campground for a few hours to have dinner at a friend's house. On the way back, it was raining so hard that I had to pull off the road. The tent was bone dry inside...

What you're missing is the VE-25. I have its predecessor, the VE-24. You won't notice the weight nearly as much when the wind is hammering you in the locales you mention. Here's a field report from last year: Winter-Tent-Challenge-13

It's good to hear that the engineers at REI have done a better job than their local colleagues in the profession did with the eponymous structure. :rolleyes:

He's undoubtedly the person anywhere who has had the most experience with a Newfy in the Whites. Might be the same for the Sierra Nevada, for all I know. BTW, I used to have one as well. I applaud your desire and concern!

You do know that your transits through the toll booths are logged into an online system when you use EZ Pass, whether you personally use that logging system or not, right? ;)

Or you could just hang around until one pops up. ;) Daredevil canoeists tempt fate on Umbagog Lake