A Brief History of Bear-Proofing In Yosemite, From Canisters to a Garbage Dump
"... The bear canister: a portable, cylindrical container that bears cannot open, and that holds about five days of food. It looks sort of like a drum. These days, anyone backpacking in Yosemite must use one.
The idea was invented by Barrie Gilbert, a behavioral ecologist, who was researching bears in Yellowstone and got horribly mauled by a grizzly. The bear pulled the scalp off his head, ripped off his ears and took out an eye.
After he healed, he decided to send his graduate student to research black bears in Yosemite instead, figuring he’d be safer there. But the graduate student kept losing his food to the bears! (It’s better than losing an eye, but still a problem.) Gilbert wanted to invent a way for his student to be able to bear-proof his food.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11687093/a-brief-history-of-bear-proofing-in-yosemite-from-canisters-to-a-garbage-dump
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