There's a large population of black bears along the North Fork though the fire of ~ 2008 burned a lot of their home territory. In the 70's a bear was dumped there with a light colored gene so a good number of them are now brown to blond. Some, males & females, are really large. The females that were dumped in there from other places have taught their cubs that humans offer free food and that its at the end of a string tied to a tree! Also, do not zip your tent closed, if they can not just walk in and out they will open it another way leaving you with a lot of patching to do if you want to use it down there on that trip..........63bkpkr
Also, Calif Griz, would meet the residents of Half Moon bay at their doors so the residents took to shooting them.
Way up the NFAR in the area near where Wabena Creek enters the NFAR the river bed is so porous that the river dries up for about a mile. The Bears have learned this and are there waiting for the event as they are able to catch the trout in the shallow pools. Kinda similar but different to Salmon runs. When I first saw the left overs I was wondering why the bears would be using boulders along the dry stream bed as an outhouse. I caught on late one year up there as I was walking over pools full of spawning trout just below Royal Gorge Falls.
? Thanks for bringing back the memories..........
