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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 829514" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I used to work at a pack station that was located in Sequoia National Park. You could almost tell where the political boudaries were by how healthy the forests and animals were. The bears (and deer) in particular... The park was crawling with them but they never got over about two hundred pounds and looking at them would tempt you to try to get close enough to dump some ivomec down their back. Almost all of them had a tag in their ear indicating that they had caused a problem somewhere(and this was before "global warming") My parents own a cabin within the park and the bears will literally walk onto the porch and move you out of the way to eat your dinner... In the forest, on the other hand, the bears are sleek and fat and you rarely see one. When you do see one they keep a healthy distance.</p><p></p><p>Another thing that always amazed me was the timber management. The beetles have hit here as well and the park service FINALLY recognized that maybe, just maybe, fire could possibly be a part of natures plan and so now they control burn almost a whole five acres a year and pat themselves on the back while at the same time they put out every natural litning fire that starts in the entire park. :bang:</p><p></p><p>My personal favorite NPS story came from when I was at the pack station. The head ranger was giving me a citation for not cleaning up some mule poop that had gotten left on the trail(that may or may not have been from one of my animals). As she wrote out the ticket she kindly explained that her job was to make the Mineral King basin exactly the way it was a hundred years ago and as a guest here I needed to leave it as pristene as I found it. I kindly pointed out that a hundred years ago Mineral King was a mining camp with lots of people, lots of horses, lots of hunting, and NO PARK RANGERS. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 829514, member: 14661"] I used to work at a pack station that was located in Sequoia National Park. You could almost tell where the political boudaries were by how healthy the forests and animals were. The bears (and deer) in particular... The park was crawling with them but they never got over about two hundred pounds and looking at them would tempt you to try to get close enough to dump some ivomec down their back. Almost all of them had a tag in their ear indicating that they had caused a problem somewhere(and this was before "global warming") My parents own a cabin within the park and the bears will literally walk onto the porch and move you out of the way to eat your dinner... In the forest, on the other hand, the bears are sleek and fat and you rarely see one. When you do see one they keep a healthy distance. Another thing that always amazed me was the timber management. The beetles have hit here as well and the park service FINALLY recognized that maybe, just maybe, fire could possibly be a part of natures plan and so now they control burn almost a whole five acres a year and pat themselves on the back while at the same time they put out every natural litning fire that starts in the entire park. :bang: My personal favorite NPS story came from when I was at the pack station. The head ranger was giving me a citation for not cleaning up some mule poop that had gotten left on the trail(that may or may not have been from one of my animals). As she wrote out the ticket she kindly explained that her job was to make the Mineral King basin exactly the way it was a hundred years ago and as a guest here I needed to leave it as pristene as I found it. I kindly pointed out that a hundred years ago Mineral King was a mining camp with lots of people, lots of horses, lots of hunting, and NO PARK RANGERS. :D [/QUOTE]
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