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Cubs Trailed Bear Through a Pasture With the many reports of bears seen in the area, an interesting story was reported last week by Wesley Gorton of Youngsville, an employe at the Liberty post office. According to Mr. Gorton, he and his brother, Roy, of Roscoe were working on Wesley’s house, lo cated on Maus road in Youngsville, last Saturday afternoon when Wesley’s wife,Shirley, yelled out the window, “look at those five bears crossing the pasture.” Wesley and his brother looked towards the pasture and saw a mother bear with four cubs trail ing behind her. Two of the cubs were quite a distance behind the other three so Mr. Groton and his brother took off running to try and head the two cubs off from the mother bear. Mr. Groton said that one of the cubs climbed a tree and the other s ran off in the opposite direction when they saw to two men run-| brother surrounded the tree and with ropes were able to lasso the young female cub. The mother bear, according to Wes, did not seem to be bothered by this but stood close by and kept her eye on the’Gorton’s large dog which had come out into the pas ture with the two brothers. Bears are noted for being somewhat careful of dogs. ) The Gortons then gently pulled the cub out of the tree and lured him into a large cage. ‘Wes stated “the young cub must have weighed about 60 pounds and had lots of spunk and she ate well while we had her in captivity.” Movies were taken of the cub, and about 50 people stopped by on Sunday afternoon. Burton Lindsley, game protec tor from White Sulphur Springs, said on Tuesday night it was not likely that the four cubs belonged to the one mother bear, as only two or three cubs are born in a litter. He stated “that most likely ‘two cubs were with their mother ‘and these other who ‘were just tagging ‘along, as they sometimes will do.” When asked about the reports that the state had released 40 bears in this area, Lindsley said [he did not know anything about it—Liberty Register.
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Margaretville Catskill Mountain News
Margaretville, New York, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1960
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