The Council Room

[Bob Kennington]

Having sighted two fully-grown Black Bears huddling in my back yard, just ½-mile north of Camp Wyanoke, I just learned of another sighting of two fully-grown Black Bears at Libby Museum! Since I can see Libby Museum from my place, it should follow "Occam's Razor" that it's the same pair. (They'd taken a six-mile trek in a week's time).

Now, when I asked Merwin Horn about any bear sightings, he said, "Only at Carry Beach". OK, there's a base (from 1949), when he built his camp.

So my question is, did we ever have a visit by Black Bears at Camp Wyanoke? (Seems we should've).


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Gordon B. (Father) Wyanoke ~1929-1937
Midget C-1 (1952, 53) (Belden, Edwards)
Junior J-7 (1954, 55) (Scheirer)
1967-1971 Military-Naval Security Group
Sister: Winnemont 1955-56

Blue: there's another color?

[DavidAyars]

Certainly not in the later years of camp. That would have changed everything in the way we handled food and trash in camp and on overnites. Back in the 1960s and 70s, US national parks with black bears still allowed people stopping on park roads to feed them, and campsite food was "recommended" to be hung from trees by rope rather than legally required to be stored in bear-proof canisters now in some parks, so bear tech and guidance weren't where they are today. Still, candy and town-visit snacks in trunks in tents and cabins, overnight food boxes, loose garbage cans... black bear would have been a real problem.
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Camper: J-8 1965 (Kevin Ryan), J-8 1966 (Mike Freeland), S-6 1967 (Russ Hatch), S-3 1968 (Jeremy Cripps), and JA-2 1969 (Dan Mannis).
JC: J-2 1970 (Bill Bettison) and J-3 1971 (Gene Comella). Councilor 1972, J-5 1973, and JA-1 1974 & 1975