So obviously, you have lots of money invested in your Ursack - obviousy pro-Ursack...but maybe your monetary investment blinds you to the dangers your product imposes on the hiking community. Let me answer some of your questions...
This one is easy - incidents would rise as bears soon enough discover food is now more easily available from backpackers - those carrying soft bags vs. hard sided canisters.HiSierra wrote: So what would the effect be of allowing the new model Ursack, certified by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, in Yosemite and SEKI? Would the total number of human-bear incidents go up or down?
HiSierra wrote:Would humans be less vigilant than they are now with a canister requirement?
Humans would be forced to be more vigilant, especially at night, (less sleep) as bears can/will obtain a taste of food from the ursack - might take a while but bears gnawin all night, food hung or not, a soft-sided sack enables food to be crushed inside.
HiSierra wrote:Would more people use an Ursack rather than a stuff sack?
Here your product does have value - against critters who cannot pick up and walk off with the back-counry food cache... Marmots, squirrels, and mice. Against bears though, maybe initially some would try the ursack for the 1 pound weight savings but, as in the past, would soon discover a soft sack doesn't work effectively (actually invites bears into camp)...even if used as directed. BTW, are you wiling to take responsibility for your product being the direct cause of any injuries or deaths - man or bear - that result from use of your product?
HiSierra wrote: ...asking for fair trial with a scientific assessment of the data relative the current baseline condition.
BTW, nice that you came off your high horse and are now only pleading for a "Fair test"...IMHO, your product has already been well-tested, weighed, and found lacking, at least in regard to our bears, Sierra.
I fear not the petition, but all the the misinformation that it implies.HiSierra wrote:So fear not one petition. The odds of this bear resistant solution getting a fair test are quite slim, in my humble opinion.