Reply #6: I used to drive from ANC to Tok [View All]

[Submariner]

every other week or so for a couple of years. I worked with the ADFG game biologist in Tok (the contraversial Dave Kellyhouse) and he and others had black bear baiting stations (dead cows covered with heavy logs) to attract bears for hunters.

I know it is cost prohibitive to helicopter that 'blue' bear out of range of Juneau....it's just too bad it had to end that way.

I remember sitting with the locals at the Gulkana landfill in beach chairs sipping beer while watching the bears feed on the trash. The local amusement was hilarious. Many summer evenings after supper it was normal to grab a sixpack and head for the dump.

BTW, in case you haven't realized it yet, you live in the most interesting and scenic state in the country. And with any luck, my request to transfer from the florida office to the Anchorage will happen in the next couple of months.