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Many signs are posted in Glacier National Park warning of the presence and danger of grizzly bears. Likewise, at Yellowstone National Park the visitor is warned by innumerable signs not to feed, pet or tamper with bears (mostly black bears). However, one tourist went so far as to try to place a child, piggyback, on a black bear for photographic purposes...
...late for mankind. Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself. Let's all take our about-to-be confiscated hunting rifles and kill the grizzlies in Glacier, but do it to save them the misery of choking on the wave of pollution that's bound to get us all anyway. Then when we've decimated our natural environment we'll have no more of these uncalled-for acts of horror, with the possible exception of an occasional mass murderer...
...unfortunate when the innocent suffer, but I have seen the idiots in short pants slog through the marshes in Glacier Park to photograph a moose's eyeballs (the moose is about as nasty and unpredictable as the grizzly). I have seen them literally load bears into their cars in Yellowstone. It's stupid disrespect for nature and it's gettting worse. I can't blame the bears for mistaking people for garbage; it's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference...
Hiking up to their back-trail camp site, the five young people passed hikers who told them of being chased by a bear; now it was dark, and they were no longer sure of their trail through Montana's Glacier National Park. Soon a huge grizzly loomed through the smoke from their fire, and the campers huddled fearfully around the flames for a night of terror that ended with one girl dead in their midst and another teenager, 20 miles away, mauled to death by a second grizzly bear...
Although this was Glacier's first lethal encounter with bears, park authorities immediately banned overnight camping and the Interior Department pondered new rules for camping out in national parks, while some Montanans demanded the eradication of the park's grizzlies (estimated at 100). Whatever the outcome, last week's twin tragedies were a reminder that the grizzly deserves his Latin name-Ursus horribilis...