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could we show the audience exactly what
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it's a rake this is the best bear
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intimidation tool i've ever found
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actually is a nice big leaf rig
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got a few this one's getting the worn
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out a bit i've hit bears a few times
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with this one so they've never chewed on
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it though actually that's not where the
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but it's a very intimidating thing for
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uh black bear these uh these rakes but
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actually you gotta have attitude too you
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know they're a predatory animal and
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the the signal for them is if if an
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animal runs away or if
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if it acts weak or intimidated in any
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way that animal's fair game
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i mean i've been working on them for a
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over 10 years to make sure any bears
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around that are coming out here are very
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afraid of humans yeah
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this keeps the uh them that keeps the
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attraction off for island
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and over here so and a great way to get
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yep i call them black bear composters i
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i i i mean if i could sell it somewhere
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i'm kidding yeah you know you know how
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your composters you got it you can't put
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bones in or eggshells and all these kind
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of things or cooked stuff and
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i black bears they i mean they compost
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things really really well
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now how often do you do this every day
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every day every day about nine o'clock
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so the bears know when we're coming
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and um we've got a little bell over
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there let them know when we're leaving
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so they know it's safe to come out and
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stuff and and and your guests obviously
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watch their proceedings yeah yeah they
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don't they don't head for the fishing
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holes first they fish
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hide for bear point first so that they
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now do you ever get any aggressive males
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coming into an area like this there's a
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pretty much mom and the kids
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pretty much the the males they kind of
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wander through the females will stay in
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one area so they get we get to know them
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will wander through we had a big male
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here a couple days ago
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i like to see him again actually well
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he's twice as big as she is wow but the
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males wander through and they're
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and they are definitely more aggressive
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tend to be definitely more aggressive
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she's keeping an eye on us for sure now
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what are they eating they're picking
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through the stuff they seem to be very
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slow they're looking for
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they're looking for the sugary stuff
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like carrots and stuff like that they
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they also like the fattier fish actually
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every once in a while we will
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somehow bring in a sucker and we'll
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leave they'll love the suckers
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but but they're eating everything
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they're eating lettuce
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there won't be anything left here that
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is so neat and then we
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actually will have bald eagles come down
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here and the ravens and stuff like that
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they'll pick through the rest but what a
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great idea so all your garbage
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all the food waste all the food waste
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gets gets consumed by the bears that's
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and it keeps them away from camp you're
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saying we have no smell because we take
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um from the whole resort we have no
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smell over at the resort to uh
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to attract the bears over there so wow
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what a great way to break up your
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fishing day to come out here and check
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how long have you been doing it oh i
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don't know actually it's got to be 10 12
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yeah oh more than that actually probably
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15 years or so actually we started doing
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and we've uh we've uh innovated more
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we've been using the rakes for about
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seven years now i guess what's the
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biggest collection of bears you've had
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we've had sometimes when it's a really
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uh dry year we've had up to
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14 bears here 14 14 bears yeah
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that's really gets it that gets really
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interesting actually what we'll find is
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actually what we do is uh
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what i'll do is i'll try to keep the the
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big bear in front of me in between
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i'll keep the big bears between me and
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the small bears and that way the big
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barrels keep chasing the small bears off
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so i kind of control the big bear to
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keep the little bears away
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so she's just tolerating these cubs now
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like you said they can separate now
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anytime right yeah any time no yeah
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really they're big enough to go on their
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own they have to actually
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and she won't she won't winter with them
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how does she get rid of them they all
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start avoiding her because they'll
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she'll start going after her
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yeah because uh she'll eat them if she's
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hungry enough she'll eat them now
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no kidding well lori that's what she her
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her son went and moved back in the house
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for a while and that's what she told me
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she said you know i think i like the
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bears better because they
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you kick them out and they come back you
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well i think we better give them the
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rest of their food and let them do their
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thing that's fantastic i really
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appreciate you sharing this with us
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he wants the good stuff he wants the
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that's awesome that was great guys good
