of bears but the tip industry put a bounty on them killed the Bears and only in the past 20 years we've come out with research knowing and finding out the Bears bring salmon carcasses up on the banks and returning sea phosphorus from the ocean into the roots of the trees which is a limiting nutrient for tree growth so the industry totally got it backwards Bears help trees grow well the Bears scratched the trees and dusty and I are hiking in the old-growth forest and the South Fork of the hoe and we go around the corner and dusty sees this