Canadian Geographic, August 2008
GOT YOUR DOUBTS that a 225-gram can of bear spray could stop several hundred kilograms of charging muscle and fur?
Until recently, renowned Canadian bear expert Steve Herrero shared those doubts. But then he and colleague Thomas Smith, a wildlife scientist at Utah’s Brigham Young University, took a hard look at bear encounters in Alaska from 1985 to 2006 in which pepper spray was used.
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