Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

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Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by sprengers4jc » December 7th, 2014, 7:51 pm

I forgot to put something in the picture for scale but the pile was about six inches wide.

Bear? Coyote? Sasquatch?

Thanks in advance :D.
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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by retired jerry » December 7th, 2014, 8:00 pm

looks like bear

they like to eat berries

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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by sprengers4jc » December 7th, 2014, 8:41 pm

I thought so, too, but wouldn't Mosier Plateau be a strange place for a bear to be wandering?
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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by retired jerry » December 7th, 2014, 9:56 pm

That's what the bear said about seeing humans there? :)

I don't really know if that's common bear habitat.

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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by -Q- » December 8th, 2014, 4:27 pm

I am going with bear as well.
Thats a whole lot of berries

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Post by sprengers4jc » December 8th, 2014, 6:39 pm

Thanks, Q!
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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by BrianEdwards » December 9th, 2014, 2:01 pm

Definitely bear, as the others have said
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Re: Scat found on Mosier Plateau 12.7.14

Post by sprengers4jc » December 9th, 2014, 2:33 pm

Closest I've come to actually seeing a bear on the trail :D. Thanks, all!
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