Cooking in Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP
We will be staying within Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks for about four weeks this summer (Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone and Colter Bay Village in Grand Teton). Both state that cooking im...
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Here's the link to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center located 2 blocks from the West gate. Certainly worth visiting - and donating.
Bears have an incredible sense of smell and if you leave cooking equipment or food scraps outside you will be visited by bears. They aren't neat about what they tear open, including Bear Boxes. RVs are even easier. If you go, you can watch a bear tear a bear box open in a couple of minutes. Testing them is one of the services the center provides. I've watched one pick up a bear box and slam it against a boulder. It opens right up. No key required.
Thanks to donations, they are able to relocate the bears into the wilderness a few hundred miles away or to a zoo. If they return to the "scene of the crime", they have to be put down. And its not the bear's fault. Stupid humans.
Years ago, YNP used to put piles of food scraps from their restaurants out for the bears, but it was a nightmare for the rangers trying to keep stupid humans from getting close enough to touch them so they could take a picture.
Bears have an incredible sense of smell and if you leave cooking equipment or food scraps outside you will be visited by bears. They aren't neat about what they tear open, including Bear Boxes. RVs are even easier. If you go, you can watch a bear tear a bear box open in a couple of minutes. Testing them is one of the services the center provides. I've watched one pick up a bear box and slam it against a boulder. It opens right up. No key required.
Thanks to donations, they are able to relocate the bears into the wilderness a few hundred miles away or to a zoo. If they return to the "scene of the crime", they have to be put down. And its not the bear's fault. Stupid humans.
Years ago, YNP used to put piles of food scraps from their restaurants out for the bears, but it was a nightmare for the rangers trying to keep stupid humans from getting close enough to touch them so they could take a picture.
