I worked on the Klamath and lived in Somes Bar. A very strange place. The Ukonom Ranger District used to be in Somes Bar. But, the buildings were built on a landslide so after a while, it seems the walls were coming apart so the district office was moved to Orleans and shared with the Orleansians. It is just across the bridge and on the north side of the highway. The Six Rivers forest then took over the Ukonom district or part of it
It was frustrating there. We'd start laying out a timber sale, then Del Norte Salamanders would be found to inhabit the unit and have to be buffered around. By the time all the salamanders were properly protected, it would be hard to figure out how equipment would or could move around in the unit. Never mind that the salamanders were living in areas that had been clearcut and burned during the first go round and were thriving.
There was a high turnover in what I did there. I was told that I wouldn't want to stay, and it was true. I found out that I'm not sensitive to poison oak, so that was a positive!
We had to put our garbage in a bear proof dumpster. It was a dumpster, surrounded by a chainlink fence, with plywood around the bottom to keep them from climbing and an electric fence wire around that. I had a Golden Retriever, who was hanging behind a bit when I went up to dump my garbage. I'd just walk up with the kitchen bag. I got inside and my dog came tearing up the road growling and barking. A bear stood up on the other side of the fence so I shut myself in. My dog chased that bear out of there and came prancing back. She soon became the bear chaser of the neighborhood. When we moved, the bears came back and caused problems.
Klamath black bears are big.