Word: beare
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Somehow it seemed wrong to Ralph Flowers to kill all those black bears. Sure, part of his job at the Washington Forest Protection Association was to stop the animals from stripping bark from trees and feeding on the sapwood. Then it occurred to him that the way to a bear's heart was not through the barrel of a gun but through its stomach. So he concocted a recipe of sugar- beet pulp and set out feed troughs in the forests. Immediately the bears began to spare the trees and fill their bellies with Flowers' feast...
Boxboro becomes home to the Beaverbrook Bluegrass Festival this Saturday at the grounds of the Harvard Sportsmen's Club off Whitcomb Avenue, near Routes 2 and 495. Slim Clark will show off his yodeling skills and Bear Acker and billings Gap will be featured, too. Tickets Ave $10 on Saturday and $5 after 6 p.m. Sunday tickets are $9, and $16 gets you in for the whole weekend of fun. Saturday hours are noon- 11 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Telephone...
...species of kindling wood, and lightning strikes have provided the match. In Wyoming last week the so-called Mink Creek Fire, the biggest in more than 50 years, had burned to within a day or so of Yellowstone National Park after consuming 24,000 acres of prime grizzly-bear habitat. In Colorado one fire that torched 18,000 acres of deer, elk and antelope habitat before being contained was rated the biggest in the state's history. Other major blazes are burning in Oregon, Utah, South Dakota, Washington and Alaska. So far, almost 1.6 million acres have been lost, half...
...Bear's Place...
While his friends in Oceano, Calif., have been zooming about on bikes and surfboards, Marshall has been taking flying lessons since he was seven. His copilot last week was retired U.S. Navy Flyer Randy ("Duke") Cunningham, 46. A third passenger slipped on board: Marshall's brown teddy bear, named, appropriately enough, Charles Lindbeargh...