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[TrekDianna]

I've been looking up a lot of hunting info as this thread goes along. In some areas back east, and UP MI, blacks bears ARE considered a deer predator, primarily of fawns but also others. Enough that it was noted in numerous places on the web: various state fish&game sites, university studies and so on. I was surprised also as that is not the case out West. It was consistently stated that bears don't run deer down, but they have other ways, especially the taking of fawns.

Here in my part of Oregon it's the coyotes, cougars and bobcats that take down the fawns. Cougars also take the grown deer. We've only seen one bear locally so I would think there are more that we don't see. We do see evidence of them.