Chapter Four

Bears!  Let me tell you what we (Dad, Mom, Boo, and I) know about bears.

Let’s see:

1. There have been lots of fires this summer on the Uncompahgre Plateau. All the fires were started by lightning and burned for most of the summer, and were only put out sometime in August.
2. The Uncompahgre Plateau is where the bears live. So do mountain lions and other types of predators.  Just say’n.
3. If there are fires up on the Uncompahgre Plateau and the bears live there, they are hungry and in need of food. You see, bears must put on tons and tons of weight before winter sets in because they sleep all winter.  If they don’t get enough fat stored on their bear bodies, they die in their sleep because of starvation.
4. Also, if there isn’t any rain up on the Uncopahgre Plateau, the bears can’t find anything to eat.

AND #5!!!!  It’s CORN Season!  I don’t know how they know, but they do.  It doesn’t matter if there are no fires on the Uncompahgre Plateau, and the rain is plentiful, the berries and nuts and all other yummy things are abundant, when Corn Season hits (from green field corn to that most delicious of sweet corn), the bears come.

Moms come with their cubs, young bears come that don’t get to stay with mom anymore, and Dads come because they LOVE corn!

(All the photos Mom posted on here are bear(s) who have been here in or around our farm.

Oh! Yes!  And here is another thing that happens when bears come down from the Uncompahgre Plateau—

1. They poop big giant wet poop, which Dogs love to roll in. (Just so you know, to keep your pup away from such smelly stuff)
2. They really don’t like people. They are shy.  Even more than a fox.  They usually hide in the cornfield to be sure, but still, they hide
3. People are stupid around them and want to hang out with the bear. Beats me why.  They drag out their cameras, point and take photos, and try to pet them.  Kinda stupid if you ask me.  A ton bear can wipe a silly human right off the face of the earth.  Especially if that bear is a Momma with cubs.

Anyway, our bear went into the field.  Stayed overnight and crossed over into our neighbor’s sweet corn field.

Boo and I followed his scent trail, so we know.  Mom and Dad also know because they saw the bear poop going down the canal and then a big bunch across the way.

Bear Gone!

That is a good thing.  We have more stuff to talk about than BEAR!