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Wadcutter
Jul 19, 2017Nomad
Harold Fairbanks II wrote:
Go looking for wildlife of course!!!
Get a good 1,000,000 power flashlight and go out in the woods looking for bears.
That's what we always did.
Too bad the **** got rid of all the bears, though...now the only place you can see them is in the Smokeys.
Not a very good suggestion. Spotlighting animals illegal in national parks. In fact it's illegal to spotlight animals in a lot of places.
From https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/rules.htm
The following activities are prohibited in Yellowstone:
(snip)
Spotlighting wildlife (viewing with lights).
Also, there are plenty of bears in Yellowstone both black and grizzly. And you don't need to spotlight them to see them.
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