Anyone seen a color phase in Western WA?

[TRD1911]

Cant wait for spring bear. Have three points this year. Fingers crossed I'll have a bigger season to find a nice color phase. Thanks for the input folks

[jrebel]

3 of the six killed in my party have been color phase.  We see quite a few color phase.......we have 3 on camera on our property. 

[Pete112288]

I have seen 2 on camera. One was a perfect chocolate brown and another was almost black but had kind of a rusty red hue to it that was pretty cool looking. That was all in 564

[lewy]

Farther east you go from the coast the more color phase bears you are gunna see. For me its about 2 out of 10 on the west slope of the cascades. One year I seen 6 or 7 but I also seen about 25 bears that year.

[WSU]

Have you guys noticed any trends in their habitat that differs from traditional colors or does it just seem to be random?

I have noticed a trend.  The habitat tends to be dry and east of the cascade crest.

[acrim]

Here are a few from last year.  West side color phase are about 50% of bear in this particular area.

[TRD1911]

Those are some healthy bears right there!

I should have never started this thread. The days seem to be passing slower and slower every time I see one of these trail cam pics, ha!

[fillthefreezer]

Kapowsin bear



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[180-GRAIN]

Killed 3 in gmu 448. Seen quite a few more as well.

[jackelope]

[TRD1911]

Man I gotta start branching out. My 5 or so go-to spots have yet to turn up one of these. Great pics guys. This is definitely one of my 2019 goals (and maybe a cat but I'm gonna stay realistic, ha!)

[JWEBB]

Pretty one jackelope! Out of season?

[jackelope]

In season.  Nobody with a rifle wanted to make the trip. I didn’t have a rifle. It was a long ways away. Was a bone of contention...