Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  Chadn writes:  in
response to lemmy999#283948:  I haven't read all of the posts,
but does anyone know the details? Did the person approach the
bear and it bit them, or was the person just standing ther and
the bear tried to attack them? If the former I say let the bear
go. If the latter than I agree with killing the bear. There are
plenty of black bears. It isn't like it is an endangered
species.  The original story is in the KNS archives but I
believe the tourist was taking pictures of the bear. I
interpreted that to mean got too close but that is only my
opinion. I have seen a lot of foolish people do very stupid
things around wild animals. Several years ago I took some
friends up to the Cades Cove Loop over Memorial Day and that was
a mistake with the bumper to bumper traffic. Two ladies and the
three children with them were walking under a cedar tree to look
at two cubs that had taken refuge there at the first gravel road
cutthrough. I encouraged them to get back