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The Bear Facts

              olfactory sense is that superior!
                         Slowly
              and carefully I began to pick my way
             across the old logging unit. The first
The Bear Facts thing I discovered was that the brush
              that appeared chest high from the road
             was much taller than it had appeared from
              the friendly confines of the Tracker and
              I often found myself in a jungle that was
            By only possible to see out of by looking
              straight up! Where possible, I used
             down logs to traverse the rugged
              terrain. At other times, I was on my
              belly, crawling under the thick brush.Â
   Thom Cantrall For more than an hour I sneaked across
           The sun the three hundred yards (270m) I had
had passed its zenith and the tide was estimated him to be from me when I began
busily filling the inlet slowing the this exercise. Â I had no idea if the
fishing to the point that it was time to bear was still in his place as I crept up
find other things to do for a time. on him. It certainly would not be the
Besides, after four days of fishing, the first time I had executed the "perfect"
freezer was full and there was no more stalk only to find that my quarry had
room to store the salmon we caught. long since bugged out for more friendly,
Those fish caught in the morning had been if not safer, confines.Â
filleted, wrapped and stuffed into the            At just
overcrowded freezer awaiting our trip under what I judged to be one hundred
home in two more days. yards (90m) from the bruin, I crossed a
           From sizeable log and was able to peek over
the sleeping area of the cabin came the the brush to see my bear still
rasping and wheezing sound of men contentedly munching in his berry
sleeping. The thought came to mind patch. Quietly, I dropped back down
that, perhaps, there had been a off the log and continued my stalk, now
woodcutters competition scheduled without spending more time on my hands and knees
my knowledge, but after careful than on my feet, slowly, but inexorably
investigation it wasrevealed to be no closing the distance separating us.
more than four men snoring contentedly, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â At
probably with visions of thirty pound fifty yards (45m) from the bear, I came
salmon running through their minds. upon a doe and fawn, also feeding on the
           Taking succulent and tasty berries and had to
advantage of the lull, I took my gold pan stop my stalk and move to where I could,
and loaded my carcass into the little Geo without being seen, toss a couple of
Tracker available for our use and headed rocks into the brush near them, but not
for the tiny, no-name creek I had spotted so close as to scare them. My aim was
in one of my earlier perambulations away to cause them enough distress to leave,
from camp. This creek showed on my map but not enough to spook them, thereby
as being short and fairly steep, falling spooking my main quarry, Mr. Bear. As
from some high country that gave every my right (throwing) shoulder is
indication of containing mineral and I completely inoperative due to the lack of
was excited to do some test pans. a rotator cuff which has been destroyed
           As is by arthritis, I had to fling the stones
my usual wont, I wanted to know as much with a kind of underhand motion. Â It
as I could learn about the stream before was not pretty, but it was effective as
investing time and energy into the the stones landed close enough to catch
testing to increase my chances of finding their attention and alert them that not
mineral by eliminating prospecting in all was well within the kingdom today and
unproductive waters. To this end, I that it was perhaps prudent to move on to
turned the Tracker up the old, semi- more receptive climes. The result was,
overgrown logging road that seemed to as I had hoped, they simply moved off
parallel the stream up the mountain. into the brush, not panicked, but merely
About a half mile off the main road, the wary.
logging spur veered sharply east and up a            With
short ridge, away from the stream. Â As their departure, I continued crawling
I reached the peak of the ridge, I thru the re-prod (newly planted) timber
stopped to look out over the basin and brush until I figured I should be
through which the creek meandered. within bow range of the big bear.Â
           To my Although I was totally unarmed, my
utter dismay, the creek flowed out of a original goal was to see if I could get
very beautiful and very substantial within range of my bow without him
lake! It was quite scenic and sensing my presence. At that point I
picturesque to behold, but it destroyed found a large stump that I felt I could
my hopes of finding any color in its scale fairly easily. Doing so afforded
waters, let alone the Mother Lode every me a magnificent view, not only of my
prospector expects to find with each pan immediate vicinity and Mr. Bruin, quite
he washes! Any gold in the stream in view at a range of between thirty and
would settle out in the lake and not be thirty-five yards (27-32 m), still
carried further down stream. enjoying his fruitful repast, but across
           the island to the east, the straits and
Disappointed but not disillusioned, I on towards the mountains on the mainland
continued up the road, past the lake and east of Wrangell and Petersburg.
into the upper reaches of the now tiny            To say
rill. I now had nothing particular on I was stunned would not do justice to
my mind, but was merely on an exploring that moment. It was absolutely the
trip, seeing what I could see of this most magnificent panorama I could ever
vast and beautiful country that was hope to view. I was so enthralled, I
Alaska.  Presently, I left the cover of momentarily forgot my bear. I used the
the timber and entered an area of almost rest of the roll of film in my little
alpine beauty. There were extensive Nikon camera on the view, temporarily
meadows interspersed with a multitude of forgetting I had come to see the bear.
beaver ponds, with a tiny stream            When my
vigorously working its way from one pond sanity returned after a short hiatus, I
to the next as it made its way down the judged the bear to be in the "nice bear"
slope toward the lake I'd seen earlier. class on the Twangg Universal Scoring
 Between these diminutive ponds, stands System. The levels on this system are
of spruce and hemlock with an occasional quite simple and don't involve a lot of
pine struggled to make a living in the superfluous measurements as to most other
damp, boggy soil. scoring systems in use today. It
           As I simply goes from "little bear" to "good
left this area, I entered a region that bear", "nice bear", "great bear", "OH MY
had been logged several years ago. My GOSH" and the ultimate is "Faints Dead
best estimate would be six to eight years Away". I use this same scoring system
had elapsed since it was logged. The on all major game species and some
stumps of great Sitka Spruce, Western fish. It's the most universal system
Hemlock and Red Cedar stood as silent ever devised. For safety's sake, when
testament to the great stand of timber applying this system to the Grizzly Bear,
that had once stood here. Everywhere, Ursus Horriblis, any class above "little
there were young trees growing in the bear" should be done while vacating the
comparatively drier soil, giving promise area the bear inhabits! Further, it is
to the great stand of timber that would recommended that any larger Grizz in the
soon be found here again in a very few TUSS scale be estimated from film taken
years. Today, though, it was at the while retreating!
prime age for wildlife as the brushes            This
were growing in great profusion at just was definitely a lone boar and would
the age of maximum tenderness and measure between five and one half and six
nutrition. The small Sitka Blacktail feet (about 2m).  He weighed about
deer indigenous to Southeast Alaska were 375-400 lbs (170-180 kg) on the foot
everywhere! They obviously found the (bears don't have hooves)! He was a
young brushes to besucculent eating and very nice bear... maybe even a "great
were making good time on getting their bear" and, if I had been so inclined and
fair share. so armed, he would have been a very
           As I simple target. As it was, however, all
continued higher on the mountain, I was I wished to do was to watch him and learn
watching very closely as the blueberry something of his traits from close
and huckleberry brushes were becoming observation.
more prevalent and berries in this area            All too
generally means bears! Â It was not long soon, a vagrant wind betrayed my presence
before I was rewarded and I spotted a to his ultra-sensitive nose and he began
lone black bear feeding on the ripening a slow, careful, tactical retreat. I
blueberries growing in profusion around got my camera reloaded in time to get
him. A lone bear probably meant it was only a couple of longer range shots, but
a boar as, carefully as I watched, I he will live forever in the view screen
could find no evidence of young ones or of my mind.
of this bear paying heed to what could            As I
have been another bear. This bear had retreated in my turn to my vehicle after
evidently either not seen me, or did not his departure, I pondered God, Life and
consider me a threat, for he continued Bears and our place in the overall scheme
his foraging even as I parked my vehicle of things, a scheme that we all too often
and began a short semi-circle to insure don't understand or cannot comprehend,
the wind, such as it was this clear, calm but suffice it to know that such places
day, was completely in my favor. It is and such creations do exist. That is
said that if a leaf falls in the forest, sufficient unto my soul for the
the eagle will see it; the deer will hear present... perhaps for always...
it and the bear willsmell it! His




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