As recently as the start of August, some polls showed the "yes" camp trailing by double digits.
In the Mori-Ipsos survey, support for a "No" vote was 58 per cent, with the "Yes" camp trailing on 42 per cent.
TheCanoeMan runs canoe camping trails on the Rivers Bure, Ant and Waveney in Norfolk and Suffolk, with wild camping along the riverside.
AllTrails, the AngelPad and 500 Startups-backed company working to build the most comprehensive database of hiking, biking and camping trails around the world, is announcing a major partnership today with National Geographic.
A few critics have said that publicity, including an MTV documentary called "Fat Camp" that featured Camp Pocono Trails, runs the risk of making a spectacle of obese children.
Wednesday's bear seemed far meaner to the boys, ages 11 and 12, who were on a trip with others from a camp called Trail Blazers.
While they make videos for their sponsors of themselves hiking up to base camp in trail shoes and carrying only day packs, somewhere outside the frame Sherpas are lugging their batteries and cheese.
Camp Pocono Trails is part of a chain of three New Image Camps whose other sites are in Florida and California.
"We're pushing things like cold-weather camping, mountaineering, trail running, as well as road cycling, mountain biking," said Jill Layfield, chief executive of Backcountry.com, an online retailer.
