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As for cooking in bear country stop an hour before camp cook dinner do dishes then hike to campsite. in morning pack up cook then leave. there is also light weight elec fences available run on 4 d cell. keep your bear spray on your person at all times, beside you when you sleep.


Yeah, you'll find in New Jersey a lot of people, in a dubious effort to foil the numerous black bears, will cook dinner at the railroad stations on their way home from work at night. Then in the morning, they get coffee on the road.

Unsightly electric bear fencing is very common, and there is a movement to make the local black bears wear collars, so that invisible dog fences could be used instead, thus helping to support property values.

Still others believe that concealed weapons are the best answer, as this entails an element of surprise.