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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Hugo Martin / The Bulletin
September 21, 2008
GILA WILDERNESS, N.M. — I was bushwhacking through a tangle of shrub and trees, following the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, when I came across fresh bear prints in the wet, sandy shores.
Big bear prints.
I shouldn’t have been surprised. After all, the wrangler who....