Black Bear
Euarctos americanus
A black bear observed along a riparian area at the Klickitat Canyon Natural Resources Conservation Area......June 17, 2007.
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Bear scat seen at left along the Riley Trail #64, Mount Adams Wilderness..........October 3, 2014. The photo at right shows black bear scat as seenalong the Round the Mountain Trail #9 between Crooked and Gotchen Creeks, Yakama Nation lands at Bird Creek Meadows, Mount Adams......September 4, 2022.
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Black bear scat at left on the trail along the Blue Lake Horse Trail #237 at the head of the Blue Lake drainage, Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument......August 14, 2024. Obviously, it had been eating some huckleberries. The image at right shows bear scat in conifer forest at the Klickitat Oaks Phase 2, a Columbia Land Trust property on the south rim of Snyder Canyon, Klickitat County, WA.........May 6, 2024.
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Black bear footprint and scat observed in forest along a vernally moist drainage running uphill to the southwest from Dead Canyon, about 2 miles or so west of the Klickitat River........May 9, 2025.
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More black bear scat in the image at left, this time observed along the old Cascade Crest Trail between Rock and Blue Lakes, Indian Heaven Wilderness.....September 17, 2025. The image at right shows a tree trunk used as a bear scrape as seen along the Race Track Trail #171 uphill to the south of the Indian Race Track meadows, Indidan Heaven Wilderness.....August 28, 2025.
Paul Slichter