RE: Color phase bears
I live on top of a moutain here which is a free roaming range for cattle and occassionally I get an odd cow that comes in on my salt block. I saw this red cow cutting across the property so I grabbed my bull whip to head it off, as it came through this little thicket at 20 yrs, when I went to cut it off I realized it was a huge cinnamon black bear. Face to face. Its good to be ugly as it ran off.
All black bears are not black.
Bobby