It's been a while since I saw a bear

It’s been a while since I saw a bear in my neighborhood.

We had them in our yard once in Bozeman as evidenced by the scat they left. I have a wonderful photo of a black bear running full tilt through the cemetery behind my daughter’s house in Livingston. I used to have to shoo them off the porch of my cabin in Cooke City.

But once Barb and I moved to Malta I pretty much gave up hope of seeing any more bears near where I live. After all, we’re miles from the mountains on the tree-less prairie, and even though locals fear radical environmentalists will reintroduce grizzly bears to the prairie, i...