Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — Grizzlies Flee From Fire [ARTICLE]

Grizzlies Flee From Fire

Grazing Distriot of Oregon Overrun By Beare Driven From Home* by Laet Year's Fires. Portland, Ore.—One effect of the forest Area which swept great areas hut year has been to drive a lot of grizzly bears from their former feeding grounds and make them a menace to stock. Many reports have hen received here Recently of the depredations of these big animals on the east slope of the Cascade mountains, and preparations are being made to hunt them down. The Cascade mountains have never been known as the haunt of the grizzlies. In the Blue mountains, about *6O miles to the east, however, the animals have been known to be fairly plentiful. Great areas of the Blue mountains and near-by ridges here burned over in the great forest Area of last year, and so that spring the grizzlies did not find the supplies of food to which they bad been accustomed. It is believed that they then wandered across the valleys to the range nearer the crest. Here they also found insufficient supplies, and so they have turned on the stock which ranges the east slope of the Cascaded. Berry Hickson, an old-time woodsman of the Upper McKenzie river, had a great surprise recently when he set out on an expedition Into the Caa cades. In the middle of one night several bears brought down one es

his pack mules and ate it He had to guard the others on succeeding nights, and with difficulty got out of the country with any of them. He has also suffered losses to stock, and will Join with other hunters to going after this big game