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List of Attacks in July of 2017:
4 July 2017 - www.sltrib.com/...
5 July 2017 - www.usnews.com...
9 July 2017 - fox5sandiego.co...
12 July 2017 - www.idahostates...
Recent Deadly Attacks:
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Bear Spray Fails in this Story:
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After multiple bear attacks have occurred this month of July, 2017, it is more important than ever to understand bear safety in order to keep yourself and other campers or hikers safe when enjoying the outdoors and spending time in the BackCountry.
Being bear-aware means keeping your camp safe. This idea of creating a wall around your tent with dead timber is free and easy to do. Animals avoid going through brush, so this will deter a bear from smashing the tent down on top of you.
The "bear-a-cade" will also prevent bears from tearing through your tent. Many bear fatalities have occured when bears pulled people out of their tents by grabbing onto their sleeping bags.
If you are wrapped up tight in a sleeping bag and asleep, you will have very little chance of reacting to a night-time bear mauling. The wall of sticks and tree limbs will surely help alert you if a bear attempts to attack you in your tent.
Firearms and bear spray (mace pepper spray) are reccomended, but only if you take proper training and safety measures to use these tools. You don't want to endanger yourself more than you would without even carrying them as protection.
Bears are out their, and attacks do occur more often than you think. Don't get caught off gaurd by a grizzly or a black bear, stay safer and be bear-aware.
Creative Commons/Fair Use Image credits:
Grizzly Bear photo - Creative Commmons Grizzly Bear by NPS Photo / Ken Conger CC by 2.0
Geographical Range of Bears in North America - This map was compiled by superimposing three maps prepared by Karl Musser (American black bear - Creative Commons License), Simon Pierre Barrette (grizzly bear - GNU Free Document License), and Fabio B (polar bear - public domain).
Google map data © 2017 - Google Earth