Pepper spray is more effective during encounters with bears than guns, in part because most people aren’t ready to use a gun when a bear approaches, Shannon Donahue of the Great Bear Foundation said during the first Celebration of Bears Friday at Harriett Hall.
Donahue, who previously worked as a bear monitor along the Chilkoot River, and Anthony Crupi, a Department of Fish and Game bear biologist who has studied Chilkoot bears for more than…