Humans and bears - Wild encounters

[brotherbear]

I would suppose that this is as good as any place to post this. I am thoroughly enjoying this site; great bunch of posters here. Sanjay has been doing an excellent job. A great many highly knowledgeable people here from whom I have been learning a great deal. What I miss though are the few actual bear enthusiasts that used to be active on the 'the other site' - AVA. I would love to see the occasional visit from Ursus arctos middendorffi, whom ( if I am remembering right ), Peter has actually spent some time with. He has the greatest scientific knowledge of bears of anyone that I know of. I would also greatly enjoy seeing the return of Big Bonns. He was not so much the "scientific type" but was is very "bear savvy" and had over time acquired a huge amount of data and reports. Unfortunately, I never learned his name and have no means of contacting him. So, Polar, a very good poster himself, and myself are the only two bear enthusiasts here. Reply