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I feel like a lot of people's relationship with nature is like a person's relationship with a model on the cover of a magazine. They adore the fantasy, but if they actually sat down with the model, she's got flaws you don't see, but the things you might actually love about her once her looks fade are also invisible. In the same way, most people from cities idolize nature in the abstract but don't realize she's got fangs and claws and will kill you dead, and the night sky in the middle of nowhere is beautiful especially when the northern lights are on display. A bear is pretty looking, and dangerous if you behave wrong, and wrong behavior is unintuitive if you don't know how bears think.

Yeah, acting loud and stomping around without a care and not running away if you see a bear is the way to act, which if you've never met one before and nobody told you is the exact opposite of what you'd expect, right?

I'm seeing bears in my area almost daily now. I'm sure there'll be a cull soon at the rate things are going.