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Grizzly paw offers eye-opening perspective

Brandi Houser displays the paw size of a grizzly bear killed by Charlie Shutt during a 2014 hunt on the Deshka River near Anchorage, Alaska.
 (Charlie Shutt)

WILDLIFE — For all of you heading to Alaska or the coastal region of British Columbia, this photo offers a big validation to the guidelines I’ve been preaching about camping in grizzly country .

Look at that paw and those claws and say after me:

“I will store my food properly, cook away from sleeping areas and carry bear spray.”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Outdoors Blog." Read all stories from this blog