Most bears are of simple tastes. Others, apparently, crave a bit more style and luxury. One black bear at Georgetown Lake is hibernating this winter in a den that would make Martha Stewart proud. Somehow fitting into a small crawlspace, the 200-pound animal is making home underneath a family cabin at the lake's north end. And what are new digs without the right décor? The bear also managed its way inside by an access hatch in the cabin floor and "borrowed" a selection of decorative pillows, comforters and blankets to keep warm. Cabin owner Judy Wing, of Missoula, jokingly said she should charge the bear rent. But the reluctant landlord does not believe they can do anything to evict her uninvited tenant. "So far, the bear is ahead in this game," Wing said. Stumbling upon the bear came as an even bigger surprise to members of Wing's family, who visited the cabin New Year's Day to find it ransacked. At first, they figured someone had burgled the place. But, as 28-year-old Bryon Schmaus helped clean the mess, all he could see missing was the bedding. Not the television, or the satellite dish - just the bedding. All of it. "We thought that was really weird," Schmaus said. Next morning, they noticed pillows stuffed down the crawlspace. Probably the work of some raccoon, they figured. Schmaus' father-in-law stuck his head down with a flashlight. Four feet away, he saw a pair of eyes staring back at him...
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