There was zero management. It was located a mile or two west of Jasper, on the north side of a small a tributary right near where it entered the Athabaska River, from the west.
Yeah, I know where that'd be - a bit before my time though. I'm sure it was in the days
before parks canada basically took over Jasper townsites "bear problems" - aka jasper
townsite's garbage problems <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Today instead of hippies I hear it's the elk that raise hell.
Yes, their number one target seems to be Japanese tourists. I never understood fully until I went to Japan, and visited Nara - where you are enouraged to pet, sit with, pose, and feed the deer. To someone from japan, anything potentially dangerous would of course be fenced off. So, having had the culture shock myself, going the other way, I'm at least sympathetic.
OTOH, when all the idiot photographers show up in the rut to take pictures of huge bulls
to sell to the hunting magazines and block the road getting too close, I like to practice my elk challenge calls out the window while driving around their vehicles. Getting whacked by an elk is too good for them, and fortunately, parks canada doesn't kill an elk who clobbers some bozo - they just tell the person who did stupid things that "we tell you not to do stupid things.. you didn't listen"
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