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    Jeff McWilliams
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    @jjmcwill

    Locale: Midwest

    Storing Food for Large Groups was mentioned in a recent mailing.  I don’t see an associated article or discussion about it.

    I found the decision to use 18 Ursacks curious.

    Assuming these were all UrSack Major’s because you were in bear country:

     

    18 UrSack Majors weighs 8.55 pounds and would cost $640.00.

    For large groups, I’ve seen NOLS groups use a portable electrified fence.    They put their food in a pile, and put the fence around it, and leave it for the night.  I don’t know what make or model of electrified fence they use.  A company called UDAP.com sells several models.  This appears to be the lower end version, which creates a fence 25 feet on each side and runs on 2 D-cell batteries for 5 weeks.  It cost 3.7 pounds with batteries and cost $270.00

    Compared to the electric fence, it would seem to me that the UrSack option scales poorly to large groups.  This does not address smaller critters.   I don’t know what NOLS does to protect their food from those when using the electric fence.

     

     

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    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    I’ve seen the California Conservation Corps (“hoods in the woods”) using an electric fence decades ago. There are now far lighter e-fence options.

    For small critters, I suggest the popcorn- and Danish cookie tins. Squirrel, mouse and raven-proof, thrift stores have them for $1 or you can snag them from the office lunchroom during the holidays.

    To protect lots of food from small critters, get a 25- to 40-gallon metal garbage can with a snug-fitting lid. Adding a stiff (hard for you to put on) bungee cord like the black rubber ones used by truckers renders it raccoon-proof.

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