Tommy Bear Aware

I had a question for good friend, sportsman, spotlight team member and highly experienced hunter Tommy Allen, he was elk hunting in an area that was loaded with elk and deer predators, among them grizzly bears whose tracks were the size of his size 12 hunting boots. You are hunting elk where there apparently are no elk because of depredation. How fearful are you about the fact that you're surrounded by grizzly bears and wolves? You know, the wolves don't really bother me. There's very few issues I've ever heard of where they've ever even bothered people. You know, they come in a lot of areas where you hear them, but it's the grizzly bears. There's been a lot of attacks in Montana lately. Wyoming, I have I've heard in the past few years, usually it's the sow with cubs, and that's what makes me nervous. Fortunately, most of the tracks that I came across looked like it was just single tracks, most likely a boar. But, you know, it does kind of raise the hair up on your neck when you're walking in the same direction that fresh tracks are of a big bear or cross tracks. It makes it kind of look behind you a little more, which if you're not used to grizzly bear country, it's a different deal. But you also have to keep in mind that all of Canada and a lot of Alaska and now Wyoming and Montana, they deal with that all the time now. And so if you're not used to it, I guess it might be better aware of your surroundings and kind of know what's out there and what's out there. As Tommy said, a lot of wolves, a lot of grizzly.