TRACKING By Hal Korber M ANY HUNTERS use trail cams to better understand what's going on near their stands. How many bucks are in the area? How big are they? When are they moving? For hunters, the information trail cams provide can prove indispensable. But there's a deeper understanding about wildlife that trail cams can help us tap into. And, every once in a while, you document truly amazing animal behavior that likely would have gone unnoticed and unrecognized had the trail cam not been snapping frames that later could be pieced together to tell a story. Take this sequence captured on two trail cams during the 2016 archery bear season. The images might surprise you. Hopes were high for the archery bear season on this property. Not only were we getting dozens of photos of bears on trail cams set up along logging roads, which always are agreeable travel corridors for the flat-footed animals, hunters on the property were seeing up to eight different bears during hunting hours through early November. Then, late on the season's first day, this bear approached the hunter in the ladder stand seen in the background. The hunter made his shot and, moments later, the bear escapes past a second trail cam. 48