Ever wanted to pick up bear scat? Jasper National Park is looking for volunteers

Global News ^ | Caley Ramsay

[Rodamala]

Little bells & smells like hot pepper, har har. There, I got it in first.

Nope. I beat you by a day.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3297481/posts?page=17#17

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Timmy!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That’s the one. I’d have posted that if I had had a copy.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Well, I meant on this thread. Anyway, that’s been around a lot longer than a day.

[Rodamala]

http://youtu.be/Ju5NztMnQxE

[blueunicorn6]

Well, in San Francisco, they are paying city workers to find out where the biggest accumulations of human urine and feces are on their sidewalks.

If I was San Francisco, I’d trade Canada some citizens for bears.

[vetvetdoug]

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, had a similar research study that was done in 1978-1980 that was in conjunction with the Wildlife Department, The College of Veterinary Medicine, the Smokey Mountain National Park Service, and the 489th Civil Affairs of the Army Reserve. One can glean quite a lot about wildlife by obtaining scat and examining it for parasites and digested food.The amount of scat from one particular species can also be used to determine population density and there is a formula for such.

[lostboy61]

That is only if they eat Congressman and Senators.

[dennisw]

Does the bear ____ in the woods?

[SJackson]

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