We speed-hiked through the woods, determined to make it to the high-mountain lake before lunchtime. On that spring morning in Montana’s Swan Valley, nothing sounded better than an afternoon of fishing ...

of cars. The short answer: A bear poops wherever it dang well pleases. The more relevant query, though, for anyone who spends time in the outdoors: When a bear does poop in the woods, can you identify ...

Vail Daily reader Michael Smith sent in these photos of a “200-pound” black bear that “mangled” his crab apple trees in West Vail, leaving him with a wheelbarrow full of crab apple scat. “He has been ...