[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Still time to vote.

Still time to vote. Unfortunately no good pics of the bears on the links, other that results. The two winners so far. Social distancing not required.

[fireman15]

We occasionally have a problem with black bears in our yard at our house in Tacoma. The house is close to a large wilderness park and a steep hillside with a lot of trees and brush. We can tell when the bears have been around as soon as we get there. We have several large fir trees. They like the largest one in the front yard. The bears climb it and break off healthy branches and when we open the gate we find them scattered around the yard. Sometimes there will also be a lot of bear poop around the bottom of the tree.

One of our neighbors who lives near the bottom of the steep hillside took a picture of two of them in his back yard two weeks ago. They will not win the fat bear contest but it is a funny picture.