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Tower Falls
299.
Froomson
July 17, 1932.
The rest is burned in a pit, all garbage from Roosevelt & Tower Falls is kept indoors until collected. The public camp and housekeeping cabins are not disturbed to amount to anything according to what reports I could glean.
The garbage collectors said they had 7 black & brown yesterday, and 8 a few days ago. No grizzlies have been seen in the 2 yrs these men have been on the job.
Ben Arnold & Mrs. Arnold thinks there are too many bears in the park that they have been preserved & featured at the expense of everything else. That the situation is different from what it was 10 yrs. ago. That the bears & tourists both will have to learn what to do along roads & in camps. Arnold said that 2 yrs. ago he & his men took pick Shambler and went over to the Roosevelt cabins. Every time they got a chance they clubbed a bear on the head, even knocking them out. He claims that this educated them to go to the woods or stay there. He reports practical no bear trouble at Tower this year so far. I saw 2 large black & brown at the feeding table.