Seen one at Edith Lk last summer was the size of a VW Bug,lol! 😳
I probly seen 6-7(?) different griz around Swan last year,some of them a few times.Mom n cub,mom n 2 cubs,the BIG one at Edith,and a few other sightings.
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First track looks like a track on a track. Second smaller track looks like black bear. Toe line is arched and claws close in. On the big track the bottom track could be a grizz.
Size indicates grizz, but does not seem to have usual long claw marks.
I have seen some absolutely huge black bear tracks in the Swan hills, and the odd big blackie. I once watched a big sow grizzly sow with a cub go down the Swan River, her tracks were still fresh in my mind when I found a much larger track about a half km upriver... short claws though, a monster black bear I assumed. Run across tracks like the OP's picture many times.
Most notably I know of a spot near Kinuso where I can find a big bear track pretty regularly, I can fit most of my size 12 boot in the track sideways but once again, short claws. Either the Swan Hills has a weird strain of short clawed grizz (doesn't seem rocky enough that they would wear them down like that) or there are some very smart black bears of an incredible size roming around in there.
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I've seen sign up there multiple times, grizzly and big cats. The only actual time I've spotted one however was up a cut line just off the haul road on the Blue Ridge side of the highway.
Swan Hills has always had a decent grizzly population, I saw my first grizzly on a cross Canada trip with my parents in 1976. I was six at the time but that trip really stuck with me. My parents were helping friends of theirs move from Ontario to the Peace region, my parents liked it so much we moved out the next year as part of the eastern invasion.
Theory, popularized by Al Oeming, held that the Swan Hills was home to an unusually large subspecies of Grizzlies. Theory has been discounted, but the bears remain.
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That doesn't look like a big track to me. Been working and hunting in Swan Hills since 1980.
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Bear tracks in Swan Hills area
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