Living in Bear Country Talk Tonight

Went to a MeetUp Pot-luck dinner tonight with a speaker afterwards from the Fish & Game Club, talking about living with bears within the municipality.  Brown bears and black bears are not only outside of the city on the trails but also sometimes within the city due to salmon streams running throughout.  It was a pretty interesting talk -- and good company -- and we came home and turned on the television to find a show about the Adirondacks, beginning with the 90 mile canoe race, then the 46 high peaks and on to other Adirondack activities!  There are definitely similarities.  Brian says he is now going to go and buy bear spray for us, which most people carry spring through fall for hiking, biking, etc.  Of course, the bears are hunkered down now but we hear they wake up about mid-April, just waiting for those little moose calves to be born!  We saw moose tracks on the way into this business tonight where the talk took place, and they have plastic "sandwich" signs that they set out saying "Caution, Moose Sighting" like the signs that they put out in public bathrooms when they are cleaning or when the floors are wet!  This is on one of the busiest streets in town!