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LETTERS, Page 6Loaded for Bear
Whatever was John Skow thinking when he wrote that "Bears,
these days, behave like large raccoons" (ESSAY, Nov. 13)? Skow's
right about their being "smart" and "cute." He's dead wrong about
bears' being "virtually harmless." Get between a 350-lb. black bear
and what it wants to eat, and you are in serious trouble. Just ask
any ranger who's had experience in the Smoky Mountains. Black bears
do not get along well with people.
John E. Ross
Plainfield, N.J.
Skow's description of hunters was a cynic's delight, although
perhaps too lighthearted for those of us whose lives have
repeatedly been violated by the "heroes" he describes. Most
recently, my German shepherd came home from the woods and marsh to
lie down in a favorite spot where she felt safe; she put her nose
on her paws, closed her eyes and died. She had been killed by an
arrow from a hunter's bow. This time it was only a dog that died
-- an extraordinarily kind working farm dog, my beloved companion.
Bobbye S. Wicke
Aberdeen, N.C.
As a registered Maine guide, I have spent decades searching for
the most elusive animal in nature: an antihunter capable of
rational and original thought. Skow is such a creature.
John F. Sherwood
Belfast, Me.