ORIGINAL: DougMD
Bears should be hibernating. Sounds like ice/snow clinging to tree limbs weighing them down bigtime. I'm with Matt on this one...
could be,dougmd, but the berries trees which are about 3 inchs round and 10 ft highwere also bro and i cant figure how snow would sit on those limbs,i guess if tree froze,
i dont disagree with you or matt also,maybe bear or deer then ate trees after they were on ground..
i found no deer tracks deer this area only 1 set of bear tracks AFTER the damage was done.
something ate bark of limbsand most of needles in top 3 ft of all the trees that were down, and pulled the limbs from trees.
i never saw deer ever do this after tree was on its side but i guess maybe a deer could do it..
as for bears out in winter, oh yes, MALES will stay out..
we have one, a bigone at all camps in kettle creek area,he goes from camp to camp.