From the National Park Service:
"Bears Starting To Emerge From Dens In Yellowstone
Blame the relatively mild winter weather for the early emergence of bears in the Greater Yellowstone area."http://www.nps.gov/...
I guess this means our bears are going to wake up soon too. Yesterday was almost 70 degrees, and the snow is about all gone except up on the peaks. The chipmunks are busy scavenging bird food off of the deck. It looks like spring here now.
I already posted how all the pine and fir trees died in my yard (except the ones over the septic), so it's as if we dropped a thousand feet in elevation. We're down to pinon pines and alligator junipers, at 8,000 feet. Now it looks like spring is a month early.
What do the bears eat? These are black bears, and our spring season is dry. It doesn't start raining here usually until July. I expect to see "rogue" bears eating out of the trash bins anytime now. Nothing turns green until summer, no flowers come out, no berries. Guess I'll have to make sure my doors are locked; two bears climbed on the deck and one leaned on the door a year or so back. Fun to watch a 400 pound black bear climb an 8ft 6x6 post like it was nothing. Well, fun for about a second.
