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J.B. Goad. Jr.
Special to the Rappahannock News
(S.J. Mosby is on leave, and traveling; she has left her column in the hands of guest columnists until she returns. If you want to respond to this week's columnist, he may be reached at jbgoadjr@communitxplaces.n et.)
This is bear season in the Blue Ridge. Mama Bear has kicked her adolescents out of the den and they are beginning to roam, seeking their place in the world.
The Eastern Black Bear, the magnificent animal that, more than any other, defines the wildness of our region is quite appropriately the totem animal of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection.
Bears don’t recognize the boundaries of the skinny strip of land officially designated as Shenandoah National Park.
If you live near the Park or in a heavily wooded or isolated area, or are careless about your garbage, you might expect a visit from a black bear.
A neighbor up in the hollow complains every year that the bears mangle her bird feeders.
I would say to her what Bill Cook, the SNP bear biol
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