Excitement during the night

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Yesterday Dale and I were in the backyard when he called me over to look at something. We have a Ginkgo tree that we planted when Kristin was a baby. So it's 31 years old and has the most beautiful yellow fan shaped leaves every summer. I walked over to it and the photo above shows what I saw. Early that morning two dogs chased a bear into our yard and it tried to climb that Ginkgo tree! You can see two places the bear was clawing. Right in our yard! The limbs are too small for it to get up very high, but I guess the dogs quit. We have security cameras, in fact one is on that tree. When we looked at the film, it showed the dogs and we could hear and see chips flying, but the bear was above the camera. Dale guessed it was probably about a hundred fifty pound bear (black bears here). We see tracks sometimes and they have crossed the highway going through our yard..one was hit a while back and was dead in the median. I'm surprised Dale didn't hear all the barking and commotion. Some excitement during the night and we slept right through it!