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Show 3^ supply vias cut off, the bears began to drift again into the back country where they ate the sort of food bears are supposed to eat. A few of them continued to insist on a visitor-supplied smorgasbord of people's food, and these bears were tranquilized with dart guns, loaded into cages, and flown by helicopter into the back country. In her first full summer at the park, Janey went along on one of those bear-trapping expeditions. A sow grizzly bear with her tvio cubs had been sighted viandering through Fishing Bridge campground, just above the juncture vihere Yellowstone River flows into Yellovistone Lake. Although a single bear-sighting is not too great a cause for alarm because the bear may just be passing through on its way to the back country, after a second sighting of the same bear, the rangers began a careful viatch. By the third time that particular bear and her cubs had visited Fishing Bridge campground, the rangers knew that she vias not going to go away of her own volition. She would have to be removed bodily to prevent any danger to the campers. After darkness, because bears mostly roam at night, Janey rode in a Park Service van viith the district ranger to a loop of road circling the campground. Other rangers viaited in patrol cars at adjoining loops. Two hours passed quietly before Janey and Roger, the district ranger, heard a terse announcement on the van's radio. "She's here!" With the van lights out, they drove slowly to the next loop of road and sure enough, there vias a mother grizzly with her cubs. The bear wasn't rummaging in garbage cans because the cans are sealed tightly to keep bears out; she was ambling around the grounds viith her two cubs at her heels. |
