What does "not approved" exactly mean?

Are they now against the law to use?

Do people still use them, but the rangers or forestry service would rather you didn’t?

And I would assume they have found that a bear has gotten into one, but I don’t know that it means all bears have found a way into one.


It just seems a pain in the rear to go and have to (by law) buy a new one every few years because a bear someplace has gotten into one.


Actually I would be more concerned about mice getting into my backpacking food then a bear.