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and her cub that day in the proper way, by throwing candy to her, and 

 were entertained for hours by the bears with no incidents nor accidents. 



The only innocent visitor to suffer injury was a Dude who, disre 

 garding a ranger's warning, insisted upon walking between Mrs. Mur 

 phy and her cub, to take a snapshot of the cub. Apparently believing 

 her cub in danger, Mrs. Murphy rushed the Dude, tore out the seat of 

 his ice-cream pants, and, as she thought, saved her cub. The Dude rode 

 the rest of the day in a blanket to seclude a certain blushing and over 

 exposed portion of his anatomy. 



After receiving this report, the rangers decided that Mrs. Murphy 

 was no more guilty than the Dudes and Sagebrushers who attempted to 

 fool her with food that did not exist. 



There are two kinds of bears in the national parks, grizzlies and 

 black bears. The grizzlies can be seen only in Yellowstone National 

 Park and occasionally in Glacier and Mount McKinley National parks. 

 Otherwise, they are almost extinct, being much prized by hunters and 

 trappers for their fine gray fur, tinged with silver tips. The grizzly is a 

 wonderful animal, perhaps the strongest and most ferocious beast of 

 the American forest. 



Indirectly Yosemite National Park was named after the grizzly. 

 "Yo-semite" was the Indian word for "the Grizzly." It was chosen as 

 the tribe name following a valiant fight by a brave, who, single-handed 

 and unarmed, slew a ferocious grizzly on a trail near Yosemite Valley. 

 The Yosemites themselves were a fierce, warlike tribe, and they were 

 well named after the grizzly. It is greatly to be regretted that the grizzly 

 bear has entirely disappeared from Yosemite National Park, hunted 

 down and exterminated before the territory became a protected area. 



Grizzlies are true animals of the forest. They avoid human habita 

 tions, roads, camps, and are seldom seen by the average visitor to the 

 national parks. At the Canyon in Yellowstone, as many as twenty-five 

 of them can be seen at dusk, feeding at the garbage pit. They are shy 

 and take to the forest upon sight of humans. This seems strange in view 

 of the fact that the grizzly is master of the forest. The other bears fear 

 him, and flee to the tree tops as soon as a grizzly approaches. The grizzly 

 cannot climb trees because his claws are too long to give him purchase 

 in the bark. The grizzly can be recognized by his broad head and by the 

 hump over his shoulders, as well as by the silver tips of his fur. 



At the Canyon, two grizzlies, while but cubs, became separated frojn 

 their mothers and fell in with the black bears. From the black bears 

 they learned strange ways, including familiarity with humans. They 

 frequented the camps of the Sagebrushers and learned to beg, something 

 that a self-respecting grizzly will never do. These two grizzlies, as they 

 matured, have given the rangers some worry because a grizzly when 



