Kurt had this old newspaper from 2011 laying upon the coffee table in the den. A local outdoorsman took a foto of this bear while hiking in the national park near here. The hiker saw the bear in the western slopes of the mountains in the drainages of the Upper Cascade River not too far from the Cascade River Road. Park Rangers confirmed it was indeed a grizzly bear native to Washington and not a transient down from Canada. It was the first confirmed foto of a grizzly in Washington in nearly half-a-century. The plan is now to reintroduce more grizzlies into Washington, and it’s an issue I have mixed feelings about as it will change everything.