'I'm amazed at this highly adaptable and intelligent animal and I'm continually learning more and more about bear behavior,' she says. Beeler admits that there is much to learn when it comes to bear facts.

Jenny Beeler, the park's resource management specialist, promotes this event as 'one stop bear fact shopping' where visitors will have numerous opportunities to connect with black bear experts and learn how 'we can all live together, avoid bear-people interactions and enjoy this symbol of the forest.' This coming weekend the park will offer 'Back the B.E.A.R.S.,' a program designed to educate visitors to black bears and their needs. Today at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park the staff is working to see that today's visitors to this landscape continue to respect the bears. In the late 1700s when Daniel Boone came through the Cumberland Gap and into the land that would eventually become the state of Kentucky, black bears were common and brought the respect of settlers coming through.

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