Some brown bears in Southeast won’t ever go near a salmon stream, but prefer instead to live at higher altitudes, subsisting on ground squirrels and plants, Fish and Game information officer Riley Woodford told a crowd Friday at the American Bald Eagle Festival.
“They just don’t want the hassle,” Woodford said, reflecting a variability in the personalities of bears that doesn’t always match our notions about them.
Also, large, male brown bears don’t particularly like…
