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Foraging Digs
Grizzly bears do much more digging than black bears and signs of them foraging for roots and bulbs in
subalpine wet meadows can be quite distinctive. Inspecting meadows. Digs are often characterized by
large clumps of sod that have been ripped up.
Photo 1. (Left) Foraging digs from a grizzly bear in a subalpine meadow
the Selkirk Mountains in southeastern British Columbia. Sign would
look similar in the equivalent habitat in the NCE. Photo by David
Moskowitz.
Photo 2. (Above Right) Foraging
digs on the edge of a talus field in the Selkirk mountains in southern British
Columbia. photo by David Moskowitz.
Photo 3. (Below Right) Close up of a foraging dig from a grizzly bear. Note that
clump of sod removed is about one bear paw width wide and the top edge of it is
generally rectangular in shape. Photo by David Moskowitz.
