Well that's just plum cool Dinah,....glad to see the bear are doing good in some states in the South. I have heard of bear in my area of North Alabama all my life, we have actually tried to run one a few times when we had bear dogs years ago,....but these so called 'sightings' we always a hoax,.....never even saw a track much less a bear. So I had decided that I would never see a bear in North Bama in my lifetime....I was wrong! I didn't see the bear but I saw it's track on my buddy's property right where we deer hunted. Good bear too,....that was about 5 years ago now and they're seeing them all around here now.....I'm tickled that we have a few, now if the goomers will let them be and not shoot every one they see on sight, we might get to legally run a bear around here someday!
I'm hoping to be lucky and get to actually see one in the woods sometime before long. It's apparently hard for them to get established around here for all the black panthers/mountain lions/cougars killing them off!!!!!!
I've heard tales of those being around here too, but amazingly nobody has ever produced a clear picture of one.....funny how that works.
Neal, if you come up this winter, ill do my best to get you under a treed bear. ;-)
