Fears while paddling or on canoe trips

[scoutergriz]

just worth mentioning that Japan has the Brown and Asiatic Black Bear, and the black bears there are far more aggressive than the North American Black bear as a species. It's theorized that due to historic competition with aggressive felines like tigers and various other species such as various types of leopards, they've evolved to be highly territorial and confrontational

 

[Steve in Idaho]

These two images are from 2001, when Kathleen and I paddled the Snowdrift River, Northwest Territories.

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Boarded up windows to deter marauding bears,

With heavy-duty spikes on the ground.

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Back in the seventies I skied up to a boarded up and winterized fire lookout on a peak near Yosemite, and found the plywood had been ripped off a window and the interior ransacked by a bear. Something like those spike panels probably would have stopped that - if it didn't get covered by snow.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

I don't know about hogs, but it's common for beekeepers with bears in the area to resort to electric fencing. One I know who had a bear raiding his apiary ended that problem with electric fencing. Seems like a lot to carry on a portage though.

 

[Mason]

I don't know about hogs, but it's common for beekeepers with bears in the area to resort to electric fencing. One I know who had a bear raiding his apiary ended that problem with electric fencing. Seems like a lot to carry on a portage though.

UDAP has one that weighs less than 4 pounds (electric fence). One BearVault weighs 2 1/4 pounds.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

UDAP has one that weighs less than 4 pounds (electric fence). One BearVault weighs 2 1/4 pounds.

That's not too bad. Might be worth it in some places.