Too many berries

[buckcanyonlodge]

That first pic is definitely mountain ash. Matching pic on this page: http://www.paquettescamp.com/blackbearhuntingtips.htm

Mountain Ash is not endemic to Washington, so if we're arguing about which red berry is in the poo, the nod goes to kinnikinnick/bearberry.

Lots of mountain ash in the Cascades. Norm Trapp from up on Stevens pass provided a horse packing service and I had him pack me in 5 times to the Frosty Pass-Marys Pass area. He said that after the hucks were gone the bear would start feeding on the Mountain Ash which were plentiful in the area. ALL the drainages had mountain ash. I've seen them, saw mountain ash berries in the poo , and would glass clumps of mountain ash trees/bushes for bear. Not arguing just plain simple facts.

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[yakimanoob]

Lots of mountain ash in the Cascades. Norm Trapp from up on Stevens pass provided a horse packing service and I had him pack me in 5 times to the Frosty Pass-Marys Pass area. He said that after the hucks were gone the bear would start feeding on the Mountain Ash which were plentiful in the area. ALL the drainages had mountain ash. I've seen them, saw mountain ash berries in the poo , and would glass clumps of mountain ash trees/bushes for bear. Not arguing just plain simple facts.

Indeed, I stand corrected.  http://science.halleyhosting.com/nature/basin/5petal/rose/mtash/casmtash.htm

I was reading about mountain ash in a place that for some reason totally omitted that variety and said it was only Eastern North America and Eurasia.  That's what I get for trusting what I read online, I guess...

[yakimanoob]

But I mean come on.  We're TOTALLY arguing about bear poo.   

[buckcanyonlodge]

But I mean come on.  We're TOTALLY arguing about bear poo.   

Not arguing just trying to educate you

Now....what caused this bear to BLOW OUT the gravel where the poo impact was on the gravel road??  As seen in Holy Bear Crap thread a couple years ago. Size 10 boot.

[Duckslayer89]

But I mean come on.  We're TOTALLY arguing about bear poo.   

Not arguing just trying to educate you

Now....what caused this bear to BLOW OUT the gravel where the poo impact was on the gravel road??  As seen in Holy Bear Crap thread a couple years ago. Size 10 boot.

Man I've been looking for that picture!!

[PlateauNDN]

It's a poop fight.

[runamuk]

Probably eating cascara berries or elderberry especially causing the poo explosion

[buckcanyonlodge]

Probably eating cascara berries or elderberry especially causing the poo explosion

Eating wild plums..Here is the tree limb the bear broke off while feeding and then took a dump. I drove past this spot an hour earlier going to a lease and on the way back the limb was broken off and the poo was in the road. You can see the shape of the bears butt where the poo splattered all around as it squatted. Can you just imagine the sound???

[Angry Perch]

I'd probably do the same thing if I ate 25 pounds of plumbs. Well, maybe not in the road, but...

[runamuk]

That's what he gets for being greedy

[Pegasus]

That first pic is definitely mountain ash. Matching pic on this page: http://www.paquettescamp.com/blackbearhuntingtips.htm

Mountain Ash is not endemic to Washington, so if we're arguing about which red berry is in the poo, the nod goes to kinnikinnick/bearberry.

Wrong!. Its mountain ash fur sure. Check the pics and take a hike in the mountains of WA. Its everywhere. That is definitely not kinnikinnick/bearberry. Kinnikinnick/bearberry is never orange.

[n_mathews13]

Ok, next weekend I guess I'll do some plant watchn. Always willing to learn about bear food

[yakimanoob]

Wrong!. Its mountain ash fur sure. Check the pics and take a hike in the mountains of WA. Its everywhere. That is definitely not kinnikinnick/bearberry. Kinnikinnick/bearberry is never orange.

I've already recanted my sinful ways of berry-in-bear-poo identification. 

[yakimanoob]

I'd probably do the same thing if I ate 25 pounds of plumbs. Well, maybe not in the road, but...

If I ate 25lbs of plumbs, I'm not sure I'd have a choice of where it happened... 

[Timberstalker]

Talk about a blowout.  Wow.