3030remchester I searched my brain but found nothing. I called the
library and gave a nice lady all the information I could recall.
She said she would try to find the book for me and call me.
I will sure let you know if she finds it.
Apparantly there were/are so many black bears in Washington State
that they scrape the bark off trees to get at the sweet stuff inside and
consequently kill a lot of trees. Timberland owners form Timber
Protection Associations and hire hunters to snare/trap/kill the bears.
I did find in my notes that the story I referred to was in the 1950s and
1960s and the guy who wrote the book was credited with over 1,100
bear kills.

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