I've been to the alligator river refuge many times. I've seen as many as thirty bears in an outing and none on other occasions. That's just how it goes. Just driving through there, I think to myself, this is probably one of the wildest places in North America. Very flat terrain with extremely dense, almost impenetrable forests. Lot's of briers and undergrowth. You'd almost be crazy to walk through the forest there. There are rattlesnakes everywhere. And the black bears there tend to be enormous. The largest black bear ever recorded----over 880 lbs was taken in an adjacent county.
