bear sighting during logging

[redprospector]

Does it count if you see them on the way home?
If it does, then one ran across the road in front of my wife and I on our way home from the job the other day.

[coxy]

We have had a couple hanging around or house,this one was here a few hours ago,hung around for 15 minutes or so.



  

 

I see that bear has a tag in it ear you can see the dot in the right ear looking at the pic you can also see it in the other pic of it walking

[enigmaT120]

It's just a piercing.  Bears can be cool, too.

[rjwoelk]

Saw a black bear yesterday somewere between Sault St Marie and Thunderbay.

[Ken]

Surprised a sow and 2 cubs while cruising a block earlier this week.  As per the usual they disappeared into the brush as soon as they realized I was in the area.  They can disappear some fast.

[treestump]

I almost fell a tree on a bear years ago, the bear was more scared than I was, he really tore up the brush heading for taller timber

[Oliver05262]

 coxy, I wonder if that isn't a tick in his ear. We're loaded with them around here. I shot a rabbit in my wife's garden the other day, and when I picked him up with a hay fork to wing him over the stone wall, I saw that he had 10 or 12 swollen up ticks between his shoulder blades.

[coxy]

if that's a tick ill never come up your way  :D :D I would be dead in seconds with a blood sucker that big 

[loggah]

Im thinking its a tick also,they swell up to the size of a grape around here ! :-[

[ppine]

I have never seen a bear while logging, but I had a job in SE Alaska doing monitoring before a mine, and we saw bears every day.  Sometimes 4 at a time and always at close range in the thick western hemlock and Sitka spruce. The salmon streams attracted lots of black bears and the coastal browns.

[Ed_K]

 Lynde37avery, can you come get your log dog  ;D .


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[DDW_OR]

 

  

 

[ppine]

We were packing some elk hunters in Colorado back in the 1980s and had a nice bull down. After we butchered the elk and got him loaded on two mules, the group headed out. I came out last with the two mules and was looking behind me a lot because the country was rough with a lot of wind thrown trees. There was a bear working on the gut pile. He had been waiting for us to leave.

[DDW_OR]

yep, i have heard of bears shadowing hunters waiting for the hunter to make a kill.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/11/24/gps-study-tracks-grizzlies-as-follow-hunters.html

[red]

ABC news has new video of Pedals the Upright Bear spotted again in NJ . The bear has injured front legs and walks like a human .

[coxy]

ABC news has new video of Pedals the Upright Bear spotted again in NJ . The bear has injured front legs and walks like a human .

saw that this am to   my buddy lives there and said last year at holloween they thought it was a person with a bear suit on it was going up and down the street with all the people    they are raising  some stupid amount of money to put the bear in some kind of a wild life park here in ny  : : ??? :-\ >:( >:(  most of the people there think like me SSS     we/they have starving kids  there and people raise money for a garbage eating over grown black rat

[red]

His arms were crushed in an auto accident.

[red]

There were 510 black bears killed in last years NJ Bear Hunt . Oak Ridge NJ is in Morris County the 6th richest county in the USA no one is starving.

[ppine]

 I have run into bears several times riding horses and mules. They deal with them better than mountain lions. Mules in particular will let you know when bears are around. They smell them often before you see their sign.  When bears are close, mules start to look around a lot. They get snorty, and do not really want to go forward very much especially if the woods are thick and they can't see very far. They start to look around corners.  It is handy to get all of that notice.  Trust your mule.

I ran into a mountain lion in eastern OR a long way from help and my mule over reacted and broke my femur in the saddle.  That was a tough one that took several years to heal.

[BargeMonkey]

 No bear today but had a beautiful 50lb coyote within 25ft of the running skidder at about 1pm. Didn't phase him a bit. Landowner has a fuzzy picture of a cat on his game camera. Not a bobcat.  :D woman up in Albany was attacked yesterday by a bobcat in her yard, lots of critters around.

[DDW_OR]

 

  

  

 

[coxy]

No bear today but had a beautiful 50lb coyote within 25ft of the running skidder at about 1pm. Didn't phase him a bit. Landowner has a fuzzy picture of a cat on his game camera. Not a bobcat.  :D woman up in Albany was attacked yesterday by a bobcat in her yard, lots of critters around.

it was a bobcat with a longer tail than normal  if you don't believe  me just ask the NY DEC :D :D  they are rebuilding an old covered bridge about a mile from where I'm working and 2 of the guys have pics of a lynx standing in the road

[ppine]

Mtn lion 100% chance.

[lynde37avery]

another bear sighting.  plus i saw a moose cross the rd witch is rare in western MA. and coyotes everywhere. kinda neat seeing this stuff logging. 

[red]

www.dailyrecord.com  Bear shot near home gets away in Denville  .At the end of this article are Fish and Wildlife tips to minimize conflicts with bears.  Ten common sense tips for anyone camping or living in bear areas. This bear incident Monday used conditioning shots with rubber bullets fired by local police. While some believe bears should be shot on sight it just can not be done in neighborhoods . This bear was just chased away .