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May 13-19, National Bear Awareness Week
And just think, you almost missed it. ;-)
As a avid hiker and backpacker in the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park I run across the occasional black bear in the backcountry. However black bears in their native enviroment are shy and will usually run at first contact with humans.
They do however like to eat and if you're packing food, cables are provided to hang the food at night and keep the bears and other critters away. It's a regulationin the Smokies that you hang your food at night while camping in a backcountry campground or trail shelter.
Black bears like to visit frontcountry campgrounds because of the plentiful, easy to get, food supply.
Of course our local Knoxville Zoo is participating with Bear Awareness Day.
The stated purpose of National Bear Awareness Week is to educate the public about the integral role that bears play in nature as well as the importance of respecting biological diversity.
And of course for any outdoorsman there's always a good bear story or two.
A couple of years ago a friend and I were spending 2 days at a backcountry tent campsite. Just like the regulations say we hung all our food on the steel cables provided for that purpose ... more

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