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Sounds good to me Bill -
and what's your opinion on this pic - its hard to tell if it is a young griz or a brown phase black bear - I didn't see it first hand so that makes it all the more dificult.

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If it is a griz it contradicts what everyone says about them not beeing able to climb - i have heard that they can and will climb a tree if they have to but prefer not to - I mean seriously what out there is going to force a griz to do anything it doesn;t want to do.

Airborneguy - I was just mess'n with you when i made that post - I believe you my brother goes and does stuff like that with a couple of his friends at least once a year. Last summer they when hiking in Maine for a month and just lived off what they found in the woods and the fish and animals that they were able to get. They ran into some guy way up in the woods that was live trapping black bears and doing studies on them - some grant from the government don't know all the details though. The guy walked into my brothers camp one night and told them they might want to relocate cause they were only about 50 yards from one of his bait stations.

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Griz will climb trees until they reach a large body size and then will become reluctant to do so. Their pawsare not really designed to grip trees and their claws are too thick to adaquately penetrate..

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God I would love to be able to do that. Next year I was thinking about taking two weeks off in a row and doing something like that here in NY. Two weeks is the most I can take at once.

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99% sure thats a color phase black bear...long snout, ears, etc.

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Im with jackelope, thats a color phase black bear. Definitely not a grizz, from my experience with bear anatomy.

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That's what I was thinking too - I thought it was a very young griz if it was a griz at all.