Show begging bears said Sai d to t be declining in california YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK CALIF national park officials are waging an intensive campaign to change the resident bear from a beggar to a forest dweller chatwill th atwill hunt down its food instead of asking for it the trouble is according to superintendent perin lawrence C merriam that hat the parks park thousands of visitors insist upon feeding the bears despite regulations forbidding the practice As a result of this illegal feeding the bears have becomes too lazy to forage for food preferring ing to sit around and wait for a handout unfortunately for the violators of the ordinance the bears are lending a helping hand in aiding park authorities ties to return them to age th e woods in the illegal feeding to so many mails persons have been scratched and clawed that the public is beg beginning arming rules to pay a little more attention to the merriam reports that while last year year there were 65 persons treated in in the par park k hospital for bear injuries the number this only six year wa was s A few more years like the last one he declares and the avill vill become bears instead of bears just plain beggars |