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berries, roots, fruit, grasses, bugs, and road kill. But they are most dependent upon the abundant fall mast (nuts) of a healthy hardwdod forests. Around here that means oak, hickory, beech, and black walnut. Bears need to put on a lot of fat to survive winter hibernation and to nurse cubs bom while they are sleeping. The tree nuts are high in fatty oil as well as protein.
The peaches and apples from Rappahannock orchards go a long way toward helping the bears out too. As one master-of-overstatement orchardist here in Rappland once told me, “I don’t so much mind the bears gorging themselves on the fruit, I just wish the 600-pounders wouldn’t get out on the narrowest limbs.”
Out hunting merkles this spring, I came across some sprouting, non-green, parasitic plant stalk emerging from the ground. It vaguely resembled the morel but was clearly a different animal—I mean plant. I looked it up when I got back to the house and sure enough, it was squaw root, a spring food for black bears; although I think they prefer peanut Dutter.
I also learned this spring that it is impossible to successfully merkle hunt and build trail at the same time. In fact, I learned that it is impossible to successfully merkle hunt, period! (I’m going to try again next year anyway; they just taste too dam good. And other people seem to find them.)
Beary unhappy
I was putting in trail way
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