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Originally Posted by Susan
Those kind of stories make me shiver. But I take 'em seriously, having had a curious (hungry?) Kodiak eye me for waaaaay too long.
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That would get my attention too, the stories are not all grim, they reinforce that bears are unpredictable.
My favorite is about a 4 year old named Ella in Sitka in 1921, she told her mom if her mom would bake a blueberry pie she would get the berries. Her father a forest official came home a few hours later, and both parents realized to their horror Ella had wandered off with a pail into Grizzly country two hours prior. I can't imagine the terror in her father's mind as he grabbed his rifle and sprinted into the woods screaming her name and praying. He found her safe and sound, asleep next to an empty pail with fresh bear sign all around her. She woke up asking " Papa what happened to all the berries I picked?"
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