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YOGI FACES GRISLY FATE

01. Yellowstone National Park is home to Yogi Bear. So Yogi Bear, as everyone ought to know,

02. ranks only second next to Peanuts in the popular strip-cartoon world. He is, therefore, dear to

03. the heart of every American child. Whatever it happens to Yogi becomes a matter of national

04. concern. And it does appear that Yogi is in to deep trouble. He is in danger of extermination.

05. Or, at least, his real-life brothers are. Out there in Wyoming, in the Yellowstone Park, there

06. used to be more hundreds of grizzly bears. A few years ago, there were about 250. Last

07. year, the number had dropped to just over hundred. And now ecologists claim that within a

08. few years, to as far as Yellowstone is concerned, the grizzly will be extinct. For almost a

09. hundred years, the bears had been feeding at the great rubbish dumps which are being found

40. in the park's remoter regions. They found out the collected dumps of travellers' garbage a

11. source of food, available all year round about. Often, the bears would arrive at a dump in

12. a great huge gang, thirty or forty strong. Then, suddenly, the park administrators ordered all

13. the dumps to be closed up, and any bear found near them to be shot. Hungry bears raged through the park.

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