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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: duckman40 on May 17, 2013, 06:37:36 PM

Title: skagit bear damage
Post by: duckman40 on May 17, 2013, 06:37:36 PM: I must of just missed the bear that did this. Think it will come back or will move on. There were multiple trees stripped. :bash:
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Post by: Turner89 on May 17, 2013, 06:43:52 PM: Wow! that dude is thurough.
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Post by: bare.hunter on May 17, 2013, 06:52:14 PM: thats a porky not bear.
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Post by: D-Rock425 on May 17, 2013, 08:07:06 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: Austrian Hunter on May 17, 2013, 08:11:56 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: Axle on May 17, 2013, 08:16:00 PM: I find it amazing what the trees can go through after being ripped apart by the bears. I have been told that the trees now are hybrids and that is the only reason they can live through being de-barked. I don't know if that is true or not but I see Doug Firs that have been completely stripped of bark and they continue to grow year after year.
Title: Re: skagit bear damage
Post by: bearbaito6 on May 17, 2013, 09:20:00 PM: Really? that is a bear! and that tree is dead!
Title: skagit bear damage
Post by: jackelope on May 17, 2013, 09:56:44 PM: Way up high in that one tree like that I'd think that's a porky too and not a bear. Or the tree is dead and the bark is falling off. I don't think bears peel way up high. Maybe the 1st pic is a bear.

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Title: Re: skagit bear damage
Post by: Kola16 on May 17, 2013, 10:11:54 PM: Quote from: jackelope on May 17, 2013, 09:56:44 PM
Way up high in that one tree like that I'd think that's a porky too and not a bear. Or the tree is dead and the bark is falling off. I don't think bears peel way up high. Maybe the 1st pic is a bear.

:dunno:

Bears do indeed clime trees and eat the bark off of the top of the trees
Title: Re: skagit bear damage
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on May 17, 2013, 10:16:59 PM: Quote from: Kola16 on May 17, 2013, 10:11:54 PM
Quote from: jackelope on May 17, 2013, 09:56:44 PM
Way up high in that one tree like that I'd think that's a porky too and not a bear. Or the tree is dead and the bark is falling off. I don't think bears peel way up high. Maybe the 1st pic is a bear.

:dunno:

Bears do indeed clime trees and eat the bark off of the top of the trees

:yeah: :yeah: here we go again! :bash: see post below, might save us all sometime! :chuckle:

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,120725.msg1592678.html#msg1592678 (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,120725.msg1592678.html#msg1592678)

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Title: Re: skagit bear damage
Post by: billythekidrock on May 18, 2013, 06:18:18 AM: That is bear sign. Porkies do not leave long strips of bark and smaller bears can really climb.

If the sign is only days old you might keep any eye on that area, but if you want a bruiser you will want to look elsewhere.