Alaska field notes, v4411
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West Side Glacier Bay. July 16 - July 20. (Copper mine Cove) Our camp was made in a Strawberry patch in a little cove some 4085 miles south of Berg Bay. There is a copper prospect back a couple of miles from this point and trails had been out thru the woods and up thru the brush on the mountain side so we had easy access to a portion of the country. We found the following mammals at this locality. Black Bears had been caught in steel traps and dead falls set by the Indians until only a few remained. We saw where one had been trying to dig out a marmot from under an old rotten log but he had not been successful. We saw no signs of brown bear. Porcupines had been abundant 4 or 5 years previous to our visit, but the Indians had killed and evidently killed the vast majority of them.