BC Parks, Porcupines, and Chicken Wire
On some of the pages for the parks in BC, the authors say that porcupines are a problem and that one should put chicken wire around the vehicle so that the animals do not chew on the rubber hoses and ...
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paulj wrote:You are probably referring to Black Canyon NP on the Gunnison River.
I have had 2 porcupine encounters. One was in Gunnison Nat Park, Colorado. I heard something under my truck camper, and chased it around the campground a bit by flashlight.
Your sighting is interesting to us since my wife is a Colorado native and I have lived here for 50 years and neither of us has ever seen a live porcupine in this state outside a zoo. And we both worked all over the state, including my stint in the 1960's as a surveyor for the Forest Service.
We didn't see any on our trip to Alaska last summer, although we camped in some pretty remote sites in BC. Guess some people just have all the luck!
