December, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
563 
in a region where grizzly signs were 
numerous yet he has seen only one 
grizzly and failed to kill that one. On 
the other hand, my brother saw several 
in the same territory in which I hunted 
and he killed three. True sportsmen, 
however, will accept with good grace 
whatever betides them and if out of luck 
get their consolation from Sir Thomas 
Browne’s line: “To wiser desires it is 
satisfaction enough to deserve, though 
not to enjoy, the favors of fortune.” 
As the grizzlies vanish the black bears 
appear, for the former are the inborn 
foes of the latter. The grizzlies are dis- 
appearing because no sufficiently re- 
straining hand has been raised against 
the power of killing. It is an old, old 
story. In the description of Siegfried’s 
achievements as a Nimrod, in the ancient 
epic “The Nibelungenlied” we read that 
after Siegfried had slain many boars, 
bears, bison, elk, stags and ure-oxen, his 
guide, in sounding the praises of Sieg- 
fried’s feats, cautioned restraint only in 
jest: 
“Then spake to him his huntsmen: ‘If 
that the thing may be, 
So let some part, Sir Siegfried, of the 
forest game go free; 
To-day thou makest empty hillside and 
forest wild.’ 
Thereat in merry humor the thane, so 
keen and valiant, smiled.” 
I have formed no definite conclusion 
as to whether spring valley hunting or 
spring mountain hunting is better. I 
think, however, that there are more 
grizzlies on the slides than in the val- 
leys; for these bears evidently travel 
along the bars as soon as the snow melts 
in search of old salmon, drowned moose, 
and other food likely to be found along 
water courses. When this food supply is 
exhausted they go to the mountains to • 
feed upon the vegetation that first ap- 
pears on the sunny southern slopes of 
ground cleared of snow by slides. Vege- 
tation starts on the slides before it does 
in the valleys and the grizzly, like every 
other game animal, is found where his 
food is found. The earlier one can hunt 
the valleys the better the chance for 
getting a grizzly, although after the food 
supply is gone from the valleys the bears 
still cross them in passing from one 
mountain to another. After the vegeta- 
tion bursts forth in the valleys and the 
foliage appears the underbrush is too 
dense, the fallen leaves too noisy, for 
successful hunting in the timber. Be- 
cause the valley of the Clearwater is 
lined with immense beaver ponds, 
through which it is almost impossible to 
pass to reach the mountains, hunting the 
grizzly on the slides in that region is im- 
possible. The valley of the Scud River 
is better hunting ground than that of the 
Clearwater for its valley is quite free 
from thickets and beaver ponds. An ex- 
amination, however, of the territory 
through which the Scud flows disclosed 
that bear signs were not so plentiful there 
as they were on the Clearwater. The 
former stream is well-named for its cur- 
rent is of unusual velocity. 
There are various phases of slide hunt- 
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