From: Larry Stout (larry@cms-stl.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 10:04:51 CST
I was at Philmont this past year when the attack took place on the two scouts from
Arkansas. In my opinion, any attack that injures a scout or scouter, or results in
the death of a bear is too many.
Larry Stout
St. Charles, MO.
marty@wavemark.com wrote:
> How many undesired bear contacts are there at Philmont in a summer?
> The standard treks, alone, create something like 20,000 trekkers,
> times 13 nights, or 260,000 camper nights.
>
> When was the last fatal bear attack? I assume that they're running at
> much less than one fatal attack per year - is that a correct guess?
>
> If this is too sensitive a topic, please feel free to respond
> off-list.
>
> --
> -Marty Galligan Motorola, WaveMark Solutions
> marty@mail.wm.sps.mot.com 1-781-852-2785
>
> | From: "Signe Rogers" <HikinMama@iglide.net>
> | Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:33:16 -0600
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: <TWBUESING@aol.com>
> | Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:36 AM
> | Subject: [Philmont]: Where is the end of the smell trail?
> |
> |
> | > I don't want to sidetrack this discussion or the list, but it may be more
> | > than just the bears.
> | ------------------------
> |
> | I couldn't agree more with this statement. "Most" problem bears are the
>
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