Buzzard
09-06-2007, 07:11 PM
If you were to take our summers camped in remote mountain areas, total these up as one continuous time, we would total somewhere around 4 years accumulated time. Our encounters with bears would total one with a grizzly and many with blacks. These are encounters. Bears within our immediate area would be an unknown factor, of course, but I’d suggest hundreds. We have even had bears help us dig prospects (digging deeper at night); and they likely had found more gold than we… But we had never seen or heard of bears eating pine cones.
This was only recently discovered within the Plumas National Forest, California. This being some 55 miles northwest of Reno. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comhttp://www.uatravelers.com/forums/ /><st1:place w:st=<st1:City w:st=" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:State>.
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<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>The first photo (be sure you click to enlarge) is of a typical squirrel cutting of a white pine cone. This being taken for comparison. The other photo is of a BEAR
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>cutting. Believe it or not….:TipHat:
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Additional Notes:
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#333333><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The food habits of each specie of bear in <st1:place w:st="on">Yellowstone</st1:place> are influenced by seasonal variation. Overall, whitebark pine nuts, graminoids and ungulates are the most important foods in a grizzly bear's diet. (IGBST 1984, Yellowstone National Park Bear Management Order-3)<o:p></o:p>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/bears.html (http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/bears.html)
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<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The seeds of the whitebark pine are high in fat and can be an important food source for bears as they prepare for hibernation, according to the state Game and Fish D. Bears get the seeds by raiding caches, called middens, made by red squirrels.
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/05/news/wyoming/40-crop.txt (http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/05/news/wyoming/40-crop.txt)
This was only recently discovered within the Plumas National Forest, California. This being some 55 miles northwest of Reno. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comhttp://www.uatravelers.com/forums/ /><st1:place w:st=<st1:City w:st=" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:State>.
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<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>The first photo (be sure you click to enlarge) is of a typical squirrel cutting of a white pine cone. This being taken for comparison. The other photo is of a BEAR
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>cutting. Believe it or not….:TipHat:
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Additional Notes:
<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#333333><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The food habits of each specie of bear in <st1:place w:st="on">Yellowstone</st1:place> are influenced by seasonal variation. Overall, whitebark pine nuts, graminoids and ungulates are the most important foods in a grizzly bear's diet. (IGBST 1984, Yellowstone National Park Bear Management Order-3)<o:p></o:p>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/bears.html (http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/bears.html)
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<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The seeds of the whitebark pine are high in fat and can be an important food source for bears as they prepare for hibernation, according to the state Game and Fish D. Bears get the seeds by raiding caches, called middens, made by red squirrels.
<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/05/news/wyoming/40-crop.txt (http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/05/news/wyoming/40-crop.txt)