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In the mountains of Montana, a golf course had bears in the surrounding forest.
Because the bears would often wander out on the course, the department of Fish
and Wildlife was invited to speak to the members.

During this meeting the game warden gave the following advice: Wear noise
producing devices such as little bells on your clothing to alert bears to your
presence. They should not be startled.

Carry a can of pepper spray in case of an encounter with a bear.

Watch for signs of bear activity.

Golfers should learn to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly
bear droppings on the golf course.

Black bear droppings are small and contain berries and possibly squirrel fur.

Grizzly bear droppings have bells in them and smell like pepper spray.

When I worked in Yellowstone in the early '90's we had to go thru a short safety course on how to act in bear country. After all of the SOP was introduced and discussed the guy says, " but I'll tell you guys how it really works. Never go in the back country alone always go with a partner. Just be sure you can out run him. As long as you can out run your partner you wont have a bear problem. You don't have to out run the bear, you can't do that, but you can out run your buddy."

I just got back from Glacier National Park in Montana and Canada. The only danged animal we didn't see was a bear. I saw an old man looking at a walking stick with a bell on it. He asked me what the bell was. I told him it was a grizzly bear dinner bell. He dropped that stick like it was hot. I then shared this joke with him. He asked me what to do if you encounter a grizzly bear and I gave him an honest answer...you try like hell to outrun whoever you are with, because grizz ain't greedy, they only eat one man a day

I peddled a bicycle across country in 1998 on the Big Ride for the American Lung association with 750 other bikers. In the Cascades a Mountain Lion attacked and killed a moose at one of our campsites the night before we arrived. The pre-setup crew told us about it. The next day I found a spinal column of some unlucky mammal laying beside the road. I thought it would be funny to lay my bike on the road next to it, with my bike helmet on top laying next to it. I was anticipating the next rider coming up the hill when i thought that it could cause a disturbance that could end in tradegy and discarded the idea. God help me if someone saw it, got scared and veered into an oncoming vehicle.