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Brown Bear Tracks in the snow near the Herring Cove-Beaver Lake avalanche chute.

Salmonberry seedlings are getting started where the seeds were dropped in a bear scat last fall. These will not survive in the muskeg they happened to be deposited on.

Brown Bear sign was not uncommon around Medvejie Valley.

Brown Bear sign was not uncommon around Medvejie Valley.

These Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) tracks seem fairly small and are probably from a younger bear.

Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Tracks

Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Tracks

Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Tracks

© Matt Goff

Created: January 27, 2008
Last updated: January 29, 2008