My Massachusetts family's most memorable encounter with a wildlife officer came some years ago when the grandson was 4 and a black bear had taken to living in our back yard. It went up and down the driveway several times a day, and the child really wanted to go out and pat it. I phoned the Audubon, the local police, the State police, and the Environmental police, but none of them was about to tranquilize the animal and move it somewhere else. The Environmental Police told me I could either keep the child in the house all summer or let him out to play with the bear, because "bears don't hurt people." On being reminded that the child was four, he decided keeping the kid in the house would be the better move because "the bear might confuse him with a beaver, and they do eat beavers." But heaven help us if we rescue turtle eggs from roadkill. We aren't allowed to grow Myosotis palustris, either. Keeping Massachusetts pure. Jane S _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…