[pct-l] Bear question.

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

It's very easy to tell the two bears apart.

Run up to the bear you wish to identify and give it a quick kick in the butt. Then climb a tree.

If the bear climbs the tree and rips your face off, it is a black bear. If the bear knocks the tree down and then rips your face off, it is a brown bear.


---- Mike Chapman <altathunder76 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Black bears are the ones who dont care if you play dead,they say to
> fight em or scare them,but how do you identify one if your eye is in
> there mouth.
> 
> On 1/10/11, David Thibault <dthibaul07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A lot of people get confused on this.  A brown Bear is another name for a
> > grizzly bear.  A black bear is the kind most of us in the lower 48 are used
> > to seeing.  What causes the confusion is that a lot of black bears are brown
> > in color.  So that brown colored bear you are seeing is a black bear -  just
> > a brown black bear.  This is starting to sound like an Abbot and Costello
> > routine so I'll end it.
> >
> >  Day-Late
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I say that a brown bear encounters are almost certain....
> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> >> We even have Brown Bear in our back yard.....the rest of the NW Cascades,
> >> too.
> >> .
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