My boot, a woman’s size 9, lends a sense of scale to the large black bear that left the print depicted above.
Black bear extraordinaire
In its second-largest bear season ever, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reports a preliminary harvest of 3,436 black bears in 2008.
Surviving the season was the mammoth mammal whose tracks I encountered during a recent walk in Wayne County. The big bear, most likely a male, strolled at considerable length along a dirt lane covered with slush and snow. With a quick temperature drop, the prints were nicely preserved in ice.
In its second-largest bear season ever, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reports a preliminary harvest of 3,436 black bears in 2008.
Surviving the season was the mammoth mammal whose tracks I encountered during a recent walk in Wayne County. The big bear, most likely a male, strolled at considerable length along a dirt lane covered with slush and snow. With a quick temperature drop, the prints were nicely preserved in ice.
