THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
are often attacked. They have more than once been found feasting on the 
carcasses of adult bull moose, but this does not necessarily mean that they 
have themselves killed them. More than likely a pack of wolves or the shot 
of a hunter has been the cause of death, and the grizzly has found the 
carcass. All the Indians of the Stickine and the Liard agree that the grizzly 
in November, after the salmon run is past, go to crags and hunt the white 
goats. After moving the latter off the rocks, the grizzly is able to run them 
down in the open or in the forests. This shows that they are possessed of 
considerable fleetness of foot. 
One feeding habit of the grizzly I have not seen mentioned by any writer, 
and for information regarding it I am indebted to Captain Conover, who 
has lived for the past nine years in the very home of the grizzly on the 
Stickine, Alaska. It is that the grizzly continues to roam the forests 
until Christmas, at least three weeks or a month after the black bear has 
“ holed up.” If by chance the large bear finds one of his smaller cousins 
in his retreat he will dig him out, kill and devour him. Captain Conover 
has had ample proof of this, having on three occasions found the mangled 
remains of black bears, which could only have been dug out and devoured 
by grizzly bears. The skin of the last of these he possesses, having arrived 
on the spot where the murder took place, close to his cabin, shortly after 
the grizzly had retreated. The black bear had made a bit of a struggle, 
but had been overpowered, and the murderer had eaten out the whole of 
the centre of the back, tearing a space in the skin about two feet broad. 
Like most other mammals, the grizzly bear limits its local range to the 
food supply within a certain area. Where the necessities of life are abundant 
it does not travel far, but keeps the whole year round to a range that may 
not exceed twenty-five miles in diameter. In days gone by, when it followed 
the buffalo, it is reasonable to assume that it travelled great distances 
with the moving herds, but now it keeps within certain limits where 
there is dense cover of broken crags of an inaccessible nature. Mr W. H. 
Wright, who has made a special study of this animal and the black bear, 
says: 
“ The grizzly will live his life in a restricted area. He will go but a 
few miles in any direction if there is food at hand, but he will seek the 
food he wants if it is twenty miles away. A grizzly, however, nearly 
always selects a range where he will not have to travel very far to 
feed.” 
The grizzly has disappeared from the plains and is now only found 
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