[Joseph]

[Randito]

[timberghost]

More likely maybe but why increase your odds of injury when it's not needed. I have hiked in the Canadian Rockies too and there were areas closed due to grizzly activity. There was also areas where you were required to have a 4 plus person party size to hike. Not that would or could happen in the NCNP.

[RumiDude]

[Ski]

@altasnob - As I said, It's been quite a while since I was over there on that Crowell Ridge Trail. I got in and out that day right before they locked the gates. It was at that time a temporary seasonal closure - I'm not sure what the duration of the closure was or how much area it involved. Their management policies may or may not have changed over the course of 17 years. I was hoping to maybe spot a caribou or two over there, but no such luck - their numbers are apparently dwindling. I believe the issue is that they're isolated from their cousins to the north, which is what both Anne Elk and I are convinced is going to happen with grizzly bears in NCNP - and that's not going to do the bears one bit of good. It certainly isn't working well for the native caribou in the Selkirks.

[Joseph]

[Joseph]

[timberghost]

[Chief Joseph]

[Waterman]

Situational awareness. If your going to go into the outdoors and not paying attention you could come to a bad end. Kayaking, backpacking, mountain biking and every variation of outdoor fun can end in your early demise. Pay attention. I have hiked all over the Alaska peninsula where the brown bears are frigging huge. Never carried a weapon other than bearspray. In the cascades I have surprised more black bears than I can count because I wasn't paying enough attention. Wildlife is the added spice that makes a trip. Closest I came to buying the farm occurred when I step on pea gravel on a huge drop off. Its the objective dangers that going to hurt you. Wild life encounters should be the least of your worries. Like Albert I believe there is a small population in the NCNP, and I support a reintroduction of a viable population. Wilderness is not for our benefit but a attempt to persevere a ecosystem for future generations and a genetic bank for wildlife species. If you feel threatened by wildlife go else where

[Joseph]

[Waterman]

Why? Why not allow other species the chance they deserve to prosper? Why do we as a apex predator think we have the right to determine if other species have a right to exist? Your lack of empathy towards the animal kingdom is disturbing. They have every right to exist as humans do. This arrogance of mankind towards other lifeforms is uninformed and detrimental to to the continued coexistence all. If you can't face a unknown encounter with wildlife with a modicum of confidence in your ability to handle said encounter prehaps you should stick to walking in the arboretum? Just my opinion.

[timberghost]

Let the existence happen naturally not by an over priced reintroduction.

[Snowshovel]

Over on the camo and ammo site the word is that people had grizzly photos in the Alpine Lakes back in 1996. The USFS told the photographer to keep the photos secret. On the same site, there was a claim that a dark government semi dropped 100 breeding pair of grizzly off the Mount Baker Highway.

[Randito]