A well-used trail marked with pink ribbons led us to a hunter’s bait site. The site had a pit with bait remains and the logs that had covered the bait. Next to the pit were bear droppings. The sign identifying the hunter or guide had been removed and the site is no longer being used. Most of the bait had been removed before the recent rain, but enough smelly bait remained in the bottom of the pit to confirm that the site had been used this fall. Some 15 yards away, the lower branches had been removed from a red pine showing that it was the tree that held the hunter’s tree stand. Fresh gouges in the tree trunk showed where the hunter had climbed 15-20 feet up. Everything points to a hunter shooting this clearly marked radio-collared half-sister of Lily and daughter of June.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:22:15 +0000
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