[CedarDave]

I saw bigfoot tracks in the mid-90’s in the Sandia’s. And they were VERY big! But they were from a large black bear that raided a new neighbors fridge in the garage. They had just moved from California and had a fridge with all sorts of bear delicacies (bacon slabs, fruit, etc.). They didn’t know that the garage must be kept closed and the first or second night they were there, the bear came in, knocked fridge over and helped himself. The next morning we followed his tracks for a while until he climbed over the subdivision fence.

(But then again it could have been Slim raiding the goodies!)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Who me?

[blackdog]

I am a beekeeper. I used to keep a few hives at our summer place in the Pocono Mountains. I used high voltage bear fencing to keep the bears out of the bee yard. They will do anything they can to get at the bee larva. It's not the honey they are after.

Those hives out produced my regular bee yard by two times the honey flow stored. Wildlands honey is so abundant. It tends to be a darker less quality type though.

After extracting I would stack all the empty boxes (supers) in the garage until next spring. One weekend in November we went up for a property and house wellness visit, and found the bears had torn the T-111 siding and sheathing right off the exterior and reduced the wooden ware and empty combs to splinters, wires, and a sticky mess. The footprints of the bears were huge! And they were only 300 to 400 pound black bears.