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Laptop Battery The ingenuity of 95 draftsmen, metal cutters and welders at Colorado's Fremont Correctional Facility had won out in the latest round of the campaign to keep bears out of the garbage.

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Desktop Computer After 90 minutes of testing the can, built in Caon City, Revel had nothing to show for his patient effort at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center.

Notebooks The ingenuity of 95 draftsmen, metal cutters and welders at Colorado's Fremont Correctional Facility had won out in the latest round of the campaign to keep bears out of the garbage.

Lenovo Easy snacks are a common source for the rising numbers of run-ins between bruins and humans across the fast-growing Interior West, where urban sprawl puts more people, and their food, in bears' way.

Hard Drive "Garbage is like crack cocaine for bears: It only takes one time," said Boulder native Derek Reich, a wildlife photographer and board member of the Living With Wildlife Foundation.

Travelstar But it is a difficult challenge to make trash cans cheap and simple enough for people to use - and tricky and tough enough to outwit nature's smartest, strongest problem-solvers.

Gateway Soon after the inmates' design outlasted the brains of one bear last week, it proved no match for another's brawn.

Laptop Parts Sam, a 900-pounder, sniffed at the can's edges for only a minute or two. Then he rose on his back legs, spread them for leverage and pushed with his front paws to send the 425-pound can tumbling.

Software He rolled it like a ball across the hilly landscape about five times over the next hour. Eventually, the booty inside spilled from the edges of the lid - the pride of the inmates' supposedly bear-proof design.

Hard Drives Inmates will reconfigure the lid, and the Yellowstone bears will get another shot at it by summer's end, said Alison Morgan, a Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman.

Electronics She points out, rightly, that the inmate-designed can proved durable enough for Colorado. The state has no grizzlies and its male black bears average 275 pounds, according to the state Division of Wildlife.

Canon Colorado's black bears are paying the price for urban foraging.

Desktop Pc As berries and nuts dry up in the backcountry, foraging bears penetrate campgrounds, backyards and city suburbs in search of pet food, bird seed - even the grease on barbecue grills.

Desktop Computers The nearly assured result: "dead bears," said Minette Johnson, Northern Rockies field representative for Defenders of Wildlife, who specializes in preventing the mix of human and bruin.

Think Pad Over the past four years, 1,028 bears were killed by nonhunters, compared with 397 deaths from 1996 through 1999, according to the state Division of Wildlife.

Repair Colorado still has enough bears - up to 12,000 - to put two of them in the bed of every man, woman and child in Aspen.

Data Recovery Consequently, several towns and counties across Colorado's bear country have adopted ordinances requiring wildlife-resistant trash cans for homes, camps and businesses. Those on the bandwagon include Aspen, Vail, Steamboat Springs, Telluride and Summit County.

Cisco Colorado is not alone in its problem with growing populations encountering hungry bears, said Patti Sowka, the foundation director.

Keyboard "New Jersey is working on this problem, California is working on this problem, and Florida is working on this problem," she said. "It's not just Yellowstone, Yosemite and (Lake) Tahoe anymore."

Monitor Conservationists believe bear-resistant devices will deter more animals and, in the process, save their lives. And, instinctively, the animals will steer clear of people - unless a meal is involved, that is.

Desktop Then there's the memory angle. Bears have great power to remember. If a bear comes prowling around for food and finds nothing, it probably won't be back, Reich said.

Infosys But if it finds food just one time, it will check back repeatedly and may teach its cubs to look there.

Refurbished Laptops The inmate labor force at Fremont Correctional Facility saw that niche market - better bear cans - as well as the opportunity to do something good for the community and nature, said Dan Veatch, manager of the prison's industries.

Wipro Through trial and error, the inmates have been gaining ground on outsmarting the bears since they began producing the bear-resistant cans about two years ago.

Lap Top Veatch hopes the latest design can revolutionize the bearish market and lead to a patent.

Refurbished From the outside, the commercial can looks pretty much like any other - a big block of metal with a lid on a hinge.

Memory The secret is in the lock. When the can is hoisted and tilted over a dump truck, the lid unlocks itself and drops the trash.

Intel When it is lowered back down, the lid closes and relocks, secure enough that a black bear or a smaller grizzly could not gain access.

As400 Chad Bauer, operations manager for Browning-Ferris Industries in Montana, whose job requires keeping up with advancements in bear-proof products, said the Colorado inmates are on to something.

Averatec The biggest knock against anti-bear cans is they slow down the truck drivers, who must get out, unlock the can, get back in the truck, dump it, get out again and relock it, Bauer said.

Hardware "If it works the way they say it works, then that's really innovative," Bauer said.

Dual Xeon The bear-resistant commercial bins cost garbage pickup customers $1,100 to $2,000, depending on the accompanying contract for collection, Bauer said. That's about double the cost of a regular receptacle, he said.

Storage For households, bear-resistant cans cost between $160 and $200 retail, but some garbage pickup customers can rent them for an extra $10 or so a month, said Brandon Mauk of Solid Waste Systems in Parker, which buys metal parts from the prison for its bear-resistant residential cans.

Seagate The cans can also store other bear-attracting treats such as feed for cattle, dogs and birds, he said. Solid Waste Systems has sold more than 3,000 residential cans in Colorado in the past four years, Mauk said.

Computer Sales Despite those advancements, the campaign to manage bears and garbage is a long way from over, but the results are important, said Johnson of the wildlife defenders group.

Computer Hardware Bears reflect the health of the environment and the West's legacy of wide-open spaces, she said.

Printers "By maintaining bears, we maintain a crucial component of our natural heritage, a symbol of wild places, and a reminder of the marvels of nature," she said.

Technology By Joey Bunch
Denver Post - 5/3/2004

Topic: Black Bear

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