FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Brown Bear Takes Swat At Dog on Cross Trail
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
A dog survived a close encounter with a bear near the Sitka Cross Trail Monday, escaping serious injury.
Barth Hamberg, a longtime Sitka resident, said he had gone out with two Cardigan Welsh corgis, Roscoe and Scout, for a lunchtime walk just off the Cross Trail behind the Alaska Public Safety Academy.
“Roscoe was ranging out in front of me, the wind was blowing from behind us so he couldn’t smell anything (ahead),” Hamberg said. “I saw a brown thing moving through the brush, about 75 feet away – I thought it was a deer.”
Roscoe, now out of sight, barked, Hamberg saw the brown shape turn and run quickly into the woods in the direction of where Hamberg believed Roscoe was – and the barking stopped.
Hamberg feared the bear had gotten Roscoe.
“I called and I called but I didn’t see where the bear had gone, and didn’t see the dog,” Hamberg said. “After one minute or two, I heard him barking from the direction from where we came – 100 yards or more away.”
Roscoe, a corgi, eats from his dish. The dog’s hind quarters were wounded in a bear encounter Monday. (Photo provided)
Hamberg and Scout found Roscoe, apparently none the worse for wear. The three went home, and Hamberg went back to work at his U.S. Forest Service office.
He received a call later from his wife, who noticed blood on the pad where Roscoe had been sleeping. Hamberg took the dog to the vet to be checked out.
“Sure enough, there was a hole where the bear probably swatted him in the butt,” Hamberg said. It appeared that a claw had pierced the dog’s skin, requiring two stitches.
It was the second time in a year Hamberg has encountered a bear while out with a dog, but he said the experiences haven’t made him less willing to take his pets out for exercise in the woods.
“Sometimes things just happen – bears are unpredictable and they don’t like being barked at,” he said.
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20 YEARS AGO
March 2004
Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.
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March 1974
Eighth graders have returned from a visit to Juneau to see the Legislature. They had worked for it since Christmas vacation ... Clarice Johnson’s idea of a “White Elephant” sales was chosen as the best money-maker; Joe Roth won the political cartoon assignment; highest government test scorers were Ken Armstrong, Joanna Hearn, Linda Montgomery, Lisa Henry, Calvin Taylor and David Licari .....