Hi Tweets,

Don Baccus & Andy Sorensen write:


>>The bear should've been enjoying a deep sleep if it were winter, though I
>>know >black bear sometimes get up and wander around for short periods in
>>winter...
>
>So do brown bears...it is unusual, but it does happen. There were reports
>of a large brown bear out and about upper Eagle River Valley, Alaska in
>December of '96. This may happen more than we know.

Just talked to someone today who recollected second-hand the cutting
old-growth cedars in winter which sometimes had bears denned inside in an
unsuspected hollow center.

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