Very Strange Heli Copter encounter while Bear Hunting

[hunter399]

https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/usgs-media-alert-low-level-flights-image-3d-geology-northeastern-washington

I have seen it twice now.  We were bear hunting and it flew over right at dusk a few times.   May have been the same day as I heard a gunshot that night just across the valley.   Saw it earlier this summer as well.  My question would be, if they are doing what the article says…..why are they flying the same area multiple times.  Would appear that is a waste of time and fuel.   

That makes sense .
Cause they was flying around all over ,pretty freaking low.

[dreadi]

I hate it when helicopters fly over when I’m bear hunting.





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[buckcanyonlodge]

Do your helicopters stop and hover low right over your head and then "track" the bear you shot at?  Ya, I'd hate that to.

[Birdguy]

Same helicopter was over our place in Okanogan last summer. We are on the east side of the valley, it flew over us all the way across the valley into the Cascades and then 45 minutes later would fly back and do the same flight again just a few hundred feet south each time. It did not stop just kept doing it, did it for a couple days then it clouded up until we left. We heard at the time it was surveying for water and minerals and Lots of folks up there were not impressed.

[ducks4days]

Maybe it’s the national guard doing training missions for air supply / evacuation?