"These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms."Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Dutch Oven Cooking Basics
Pioneer Cooking When you think of a cast iron Dutch oven, what comes to your mind? Pioneer cooking? Stews over the open fire? Of coarse both are true, but they are still very much in use today and as for the Dutch oven, the possibilities are endless. ...
Stitching Memories
Sometimes, usual photographs look so common and boring. Converting your pictures into charcoal or oil painting is a welcome change but then, a lot of people have been into these crafts already that there are times when these portraits too, look clichéd. ...
Tip: Better Outdoor Portraits
This is an easy technique I read about a long time ago, and it works really well. I use it a lot when shooting weddings and portraits. Outdoor portraits can often end up with a washed-out and boring sky when you set your camera to correctly expose the ...
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Black Bear Chase
Peddling as fast as my aching legs could move, I came to an abrupt stop. My shocked eyes followed the big black bear as it veered off the old brush road into the dark forest, just a few feet in front of me.
Camping With My Friends
It was early summer. A couple of friends of mine and myself had just finished a week end camping and fishing trip at one of our favorite lakes in the area, where we lived.
As I can remember it was a very long bike ride, even for three 14 year old boys.
Bear Country
The road we took to get there and back hadn't seen any traffic for a few years. It was a good bet we would run into something back there.
Sure enough I did, my buddies missed out on all the excitement, they had trailed behind and missed out.
Spring Bear Hunt
Since that time I've seen many a black bear in the Ontario Northland of Canada.
With the cancellation of the annual spring black bear hunt, I expect to see many more of these magnificent animals.
Black Bear Population
For the tourists, this is good and bad news, for the Northern Ontario resident, just bad. Ontario has a growing black bear population that is one of the largest in the world.
Bears In Politics
The spring black bear hunt was cancelled in 1999 in a pre-election move. The thought was that the government's decision would reduce the number of orphaned cubs.
The number of orphaned cubs in shelters rose.
Happy Tourists
Residents now have to put up with nuisance bears. Too many for their liking. The tourists have good news because they will get a better chance at seeing one.
Bad, because campers will need to keep a keen eye for
nuisance bears. Now nuisance bear complaints are the norm.
Bear Control
Some municipalities have now hired bear-control officers, but many municipalities cannot afford this.
Without trained staff, municipalities must rely on law enforcement officers, with no background in bear management, to respond to nuisance bear complaints.
One day the Ontario government will come to their senses and bring back the spring Black Bear hunt again.
The Bear Facts
The black bear is also seen in other colour phases, chocolate and cinnamon brown are also common.
Black bears can reach weights of up to 700 lbs.
Black bears roam a very large area even as much as 500 square miles.
Black bears have been know to run as fast as a horse.
A bear can bite through a tree as big around as a person's arm.
Litter size may range from one to five cubs, but two is average.
Male black bears regularly kill and eat bear cubs in the spring; biologists say as many as 50% of bear cubs lose their lives this way each year.
Life span in the wild is 20 to 25 years. Mother black bears have not been known to attack in defence of its cubs.
A large number of fatal bear attacks in Ontario have occurred in areas not open to hunting.
As a tourist, I enjoy the site of seeing one of nature's rare sights. As a resident, black bears are seen, heard and feared all too often.
The black bears future depends on how well Ontario Northland residents understand manage and tolerate them.
Val and Robin Shortt are experienced campers and own three outdoor websites For more tips like these and to register for their Free newsletter visit:Good Night Camping Equipment
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