We found a set of scratches was found in the Helictite room on a survey trip last year. They were quite large and had a span of about 4 feet or so, but if they were bear scratches I will leave up to the experrts.
Gregg On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Pete Lindsley <[email protected]> wrote: > The skull collected (with permission of Mr. Loys Newman) from Deep Cave > was delivered to Bob Slaughter, Schuler Museum at SMU in Dallas. Slaughter > reported that this particular individual, approximately dated ca. > 1900-1920, placed very high on the then current Boone & Crocket list of > large bears killed in the 20th century. The other bones from this > individual were left in place in the cave. Numerous bear scratches are > still visible in the upper parts of Deep Cave, including small ones which > suggests a family of black bears lived in the cave in the early 1900's. > > - Pete > > On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Logan McNatt wrote: > > In 1963, cavers including Pete Lindsley and Preston McMichael > collected a black bear skull and bones from Deep Cave . . . (photo by Pete > on p. 284) > >
