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Sequoia National Park – Bear Pictures
During my early
summer visit at Sequoia National Park (June), I saw 6 bears in 4 different occasions.
I spend 4 days
at the park, doing different hikes and visiting many of this amazing park
attractions.
During my hikes
I saw bears.
Black bears,
though not always black, are found throughout Sequoia and Kings Canyon National
Parks.
Their natural
foods is mainly based on digging up roots in meadows, ripping apart logs, and
peering into tree cavities for food as well as berries and grass.
Unlike grizzly-bear Black
bears do not hunt for their food. They do not consider, if you keep a safe
distance, to be harmful for people.
Never touch or
feed ANY wild animals, especially bears.
When human food
becomes available, they learn to forage for human food in place of natural food.
The best way to
protect park bears is to keep them from getting human food. Please use proper food
storage when you are campground and when you are going on a long hike.
Do understand
that predatory attacks by black
bears are very rare and have never occurred in these parks but you need
to know what to do in case it happened.
Few safety tips:
·
Stay together, especially with
small children.
·
If a bear changes its behavior
because of your presence, you are too close.
·
View animals at safe distances, the
length of two city buses or more from animals like bears.
·
Don't get between a female and her
cubs.
·
Give the bear escape route and if
you can clear his way and walk back.
·
If a bear is approaching you and
you want him to stay back make noise (yell, bang pots and pans, etc.) and be
assertive.
In spring bears
forage in and near forest meadows and they are active especially during early
morning and the afternoon. Later when there are berries available, they will go
to places they can find them, along rivers and creeks.
When walking in
the trail look for bear signs, like dead tree bark, bear poops, sound of a tree
crash or large movement in the meadow tall grass.
At this blog I
will not describe the hikes and places I visit but rather show here many of the
bear pictures I manage to take.
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