Bear peels. Why?

[AKBowman]

Are they getting at grubs? What food source are they searching?

[AKBowman]

Nevermind, they are going after the sugar layer between the bark and tree.

[cougkilr]

yep, they eat the cambium layer (sap wood), high in sugar content after the winter, as a forester I have to deal with this a lot, they destroy and kill lots of Douglas Fir trees, when they girdle the tree, it will most llikely die and when they just take a portion of the bark off it will cause damage in the tree which will affect the end result of the quality of the tree