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Almost impossible to tell based on a picture or anything else. I have seen a lot of both and size and location is about the only telling factor. Kind of like identifying a mule deer track over a white tail, almost impossible to do. It is most likely a black in all but a very few places in the lower 48
It's a black bear. The straight line across the toes of the front foot on a griz is very obvious.