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A bear cache, food cache or bear box is a place designed to store food outdoors and prevent bears and other animals from accessing it. They are used by campers when staying in bear habitat. They can also be used by
Image:BearPole.jpg, A metal pole with pulleys and rope
Image:Bear caches.jpg, Metal boxes with bear-proof latches
Image:Moose Creek Shelter Cabin cache.jpg, A wooden structure with a ladder
File:Sami Storehouse.jpg, Traditional
A bear cache, food cache or bear box is a place designed to store food outdoors and prevent bears and other animals from accessing it. They are used by campers when staying in bear habitat. They can also be used by hunters
Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...
for storing game. A bear cache is often a structure that is more permanent, not to be confused with a bear canister.
Designs
A makeshift cache can be made by hanging the food from a tree branch using rope, called a bear bag. The cache should be 100 metres/300 feet from the campsite and downwind if possible. To be effective, the food must be distanced from the branch, the trunk, and the ground. When a suitable tree is not available, hanging the food over a cliff is a possible alternative. In areas popular with both people and bears, permanent caches are often built. These include poles for hanging, steel cabinets, and raised structures with removable ladders.Gallery
Sami
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
* Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company
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bear cache, ''ájtte''.
File:Niliaitta.jpg, Traditional Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
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bear cache, ''patsasaitta''.
See also
*Bear attack
A bear attack is an attack by a bear on another animal, although it usually refers to a bear attacking a human or domestic pet such as a dog. Bear attacks are of particular concern for those who are in bear habitats. They can be fatal and often hi ...
* Bear danger
* Bear-resistant food storage container
*Backpacking with animals
Backpacking with animals is the use of pack animals, such as a horse, llama, goat, dog, or donkey to help carry the weight of a backpackers gear during an excursion. These animals need special considerations when accompanying backpackers on a t ...
References
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