Bear

[webfoot]

We have another apple eating bear hanging out. Not the same bear as last year. This one is black the last year bear was cinnamon. The wife and son got a good look at this one last night. It was after dark. They shined a big bright flashlight on it and it climbed the apple tree. This one is also a sow but with only one cub. The apple trees don't have as many apples as last year so hopefully she doesn't hang around too long.
This doesn't look to me like the kind of country with a lot of bears but there isn't a shortage of them. I don't think of open sage brush landscape to be bear habitat. I guess that is because I have use to seeing them in the forests of western Washington and SE Alaska.

 

[webfoot]

Tonight there are 3 bears which you can see from our back porch. Maybe 30-40 yards away. And there is some noise farther to the left that sounds like a fourth bear. It is getting crowded under the apple tree.

 

[Nicky]

Tonight there are 3 bears which you can see from our back porch. Maybe 30-40 yards away. And there is some noise farther to the left that sounds like a fourth bear. It is getting crowded under the apple tree.

Yikes

 

[Puzzled]

You may have to plant more apple trees.

 

[webfoot]

You may have to plant more apple trees.

I did a few years back. Three new apple trees, two pear trees, and a apricot. I think the old trees were planted by someone who stopped their covered wagon here.
Actually I have the homestead patent on this place signed be the president in 1873. The irrigation rights go back to that year. And the Oregon Trail was only about 3 miles from here. They would have settled here 10-12 years before the railroad got here. So I am pretty sure they stopped their wagon here.
Story is that the closest neighbors ancestors stopped here because GGG? grandmother was pregnant. She said you (husband) said we are going to Oregon. Well we are in Oregon so it is time to stop. They spent the winter in our little town and in the spring they searched the area and decided where to build their farm.

 

[DosArroyos]

Beautiful place. What direction are you from the house while taking the picture?

 

[webfoot]

Beautiful place. What direction are you from the house while taking the picture?

Up on the side of a hill to the west of the house. I have one from the top of the hill looking down but I don't seem able to find it.

 

[Puzzled]

I did a few years back. Three new apple trees, two pear trees, and a apricot. I think the old trees were planted by someone who stopped their covered wagon here.
Actually I have the homestead patent on this place signed be the president in 1873. The irrigation rights go back to that year. And the Oregon Trail was only about 3 miles from here. They would have settled here 10-12 years before the railroad got here. So I am pretty sure they stopped their wagon here.
Story is that the closest neighbors ancestors stopped here because GGG? grandmother was pregnant. She said you (husband) said we are going to Oregon. Well we are in Oregon so it is time to stop. They spent the winter in our little town and in the spring they searched the area and decided where to build their farm.

You can only do so much to help out the bears. After the fires over there, the word may have spread amongst the bears that Dave
has an orchard.


Interesting bits of history. Thanks for sharing that. The Land Patents are interesting. I have been trying to track some here where my Mom's family first settled and some in Wyoming where my Dad's family had homesteads.

 

[webfoot]

You can only do so much to help out the bears. After the fires over there, the word may have spread amongst the bears that Dave
has an orchard.

I don't have an orchard. The young trees aren't producing yet. Just the 2 old trees. A neighbor to the south east a bit does have an actual orchard. The bears should go there for more fruit and variety. But maybe he already has a bear who is tougher than my bears.

 

[Puzzled]

The buggers can do so much damage to trees.

 

[Puzzled]

One question concerning the bears. Do you think the wolves will have any impact on bears, as to causing them to
shift locations?

 

[Faster horses]

I did a few years back. Three new apple trees, two pear trees, and a apricot. I think the old trees were planted by someone who stopped their covered wagon here.
Actually I have the homestead patent on this place signed be the president in 1873. The irrigation rights go back to that year. And the Oregon Trail was only about 3 miles from here. They would have settled here 10-12 years before the railroad got here. So I am pretty sure they stopped their wagon here.
Story is that the closest neighbors ancestors stopped here because GGG? grandmother was pregnant. She said you (husband) said we are going to Oregon. Well we are in Oregon so it is time to stop. They spent the winter in our little town and in the spring they searched the area and decided where to build their farm.

We have friends who GG settled on Dead Horse Creek, just east of Powder River in Wyoming. It is challenging country but our friends ran sheep and cattle there. They were great stock people and did fine, even after losing 800 sheep in a bad April storm. (It was called the 'Good Friday Storm'--and everyone lost cattle and especially sheep in it). Bob, our friend, said one day, "I don't know why grand-dad stopped here. He could have gone 50 miles in any direction and been in better country." That was true.

 

[Puzzled]

We have friends who GG settled on Dead Horse Creek, just east of Powder River in Wyoming. It is challenging country but our friends ran sheep and cattle there. They were great stock people and did fine, even after losing 800 sheep in a bad April storm. (It was called the 'Good Friday Storm'--and everyone lost cattle and especially sheep in it). Bob, our friend, said one day, "I don't know why grand-dad stopped here. He could have gone 50 miles in any direction and been in better country." That was true.

I think maybe the wagons broke down, or the teams were wore out.. Or anything was a whole lot better than where they came from.
Or, maybe, more than one GGG? grandma got pregnant on the way west.

 

[webfoot]

We have friends who GG settled on Dead Horse Creek, just east of Powder River in Wyoming. It is challenging country but our friends ran sheep and cattle there. They were great stock people and did fine, even after losing 800 sheep in a bad April storm. (It was called the 'Good Friday Storm'--and everyone lost cattle and especially sheep in it). Bob, our friend, said one day, "I don't know why grand-dad stopped here. He could have gone 50 miles in any direction and been in better country." That was true.

I have heard the same sort of thing about Chandler Hereford. The old timers stopped there in the early 1860's. They stopped on the worse soil in the valley. A couple miles any direction would have been better.

 

[webfoot]

The wife cleaning up bear crap in the yard. On Saturday there was 20 piles. The bear needs to do a better job of chewing its food. The apples look to go right straight through.

 

[Puzzled]

:unsure: I hope you pitched in and helped her. If not I hope she tosses a couple scoops your way.

 

[webfoot]

:unsure: I hope you pitched in and helped her. If not I hope she tosses a couple scoops your way.

She takes care of her yard. I take care of the rest of the ranch. If she asks I help her. If I ask she helps me. I did pick it up one day when she was gone. But she has done 99% of it. No bears the last 2 days. Hopefully they have moved on.