Comment by Patric Hedlund, TME

Some fuzzy photos popped into my phone this week. They were sent anonymously. I saw a bear I knew, that I’d met last year, about four months after it was born.

I recalled meeting its mother first—although I didn’t know she was a mother then. The large black bear was sitting on a 60-degree slope, 20 feet from my back door. She was calm and comfortable, a silent and relaxed presence the color of dark…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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These three bears have been climbing on decks and roofs, now they are starting to break screen doors.

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