Chapter 868 Adding Insult to Injury

• In the Northeast, folks call the black bear “bear blind,” and everyone fears it. Compared to tigers, lions, or leopards, this beast scares people more.
• Up there, when adults want to scare kids, they bring up the bear blind. Both grown-ups and kids dread it. People living at the foot of deep forests know the fear even better—old-timers often spot signs of the bear’s roaming.
• But in recent years, people have kept cutting into the forest—logging, wrecking the ecosystem, hunting wild animals, and stripping herbs. The damage got worse and worse. Many fierce predators that used to linger on the edge of the forest retreated deeper into primeval woods. Now, it’s rare to see them. Against powerful humans, even the fiercest beasts can’t beat planes and cannons.