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Who doesn’t love a bear? Bears are cute. We all grew up with Yogi Bear, Smokey Bear and even Teddy Bears. One of the most endearing moments of my Park Ranger career involved bears. Walking to the visitor center one early morning, I caught sight of a baby bear clutching…
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Sitting at the table eating Sunday breakfast, Bryon and I lazily read the newspaper. Since I was a kid, Sunday breakfast has always been a tradition with my family, so it only made sense that we continued it. Waffles, pancakes, omelettes, hash browns, and bacon on a cold Sunday morning…
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Can you imagine eating 400 Oreo cookies per day for weeks on end? Or 25 hamburgers? That’s what it’s like to be a black bear during the month of September in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. In order to get ready to den for the winter months, black bears must consume…
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The hot topic on NextDoor had a single subject line — “Bear.” Living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado means living with wildlife. Perhaps no single animal symbolizes the wild in wilderness more than bears. Only black bears call Colorado home, as Grizzly Bears were hunted to extinction early in…
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