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All Black Bears Articles
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- You say bears keep taking your garbage and redistributing it around your yard? Well, do something about it.
At this year's Florida Black Bear Festival, held on March 27, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have a challenge for everyone.
Figure out a way to keep them out of your garbage. If you can do that, you can win one of three $100 gift card to Lowe's.
A state wildlife agency is reminding Middlesex and Worcester County residents living near black bear habitat to remove bird feeders and other potential food sources before the hungry mammals emerge in coming weeks from hibernation.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - When Florida's black bears come in contact with humans it often results in a death sentence for the bear involved, but it doesn't have to be that way. An event to let people know about ways to live responsibly in bear country will feature some simple steps residents can take to coexist with the Florida Black Bear.
Dave Telesco, a bear expert with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, says securing trash would be a huge step in the right direction.
Approximately 2,000 black bears are killed every year in California where it remains legal to hunt bears who weigh over 50 pounds (including cubs) with packs of dogs. The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has now proposed radical changes to bear hunting regulations that would allow even more bear killing. California residents: we need your help to stop this proposal.
ASPEN, Colorado — An underweight, yearling black bear, found Monday on the back of Aspen Mountain, is now under the care of a wildlife rehabilitation center near Silt.
A woman found the bear near Midnight Mine Road and brought it to the Aspen Animal Shelter, according to ReRe Baker, animal safety director for Pitkin County. No other information about the bear's rescuer, or how she managed to collect the animal and get it to the shelter, was available.
Ohio is getting wilder out there. Confirmed sightings of both black bears and bobcats increased across Ohio in 2009, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The agency said Ohio had 119 black bear sightings, of which 51 were confirmed by state personnel. That compares with 38 confirmed sightings in 2008.
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev.-A bear advocacy group is criticizing the fatal shooting of a black bear at Lake Tahoe by a sheriff's deputy.
The Washoe County deputy shot and killed the 600-pound bear that rushed him Tuesday after wildlife officials tried to flush the hibernating animal out from under a home in Incline Village. Ann Bryant of the Tahoe-based BEAR League says her group has freed numerous bears from enclosed spaces and never needed to harm one. She says the bear's killing was unnecessary and unethical. Wildlife officials say the 10-year-old male bear was a nuisance animal that would have been euthanized anyway. They say the bear was accustomed to eating out of trash cans, and that's why bear-proof trash containers are important in bear country.
MyFox New York reported Joe McCabe spotted the bear in his backyard and called his daughter to come take a look - until he saw it feasting on Blackie, the family pet rabbit. The rabbit had been roaming free in the screened porch and didn't stand a chance against the predator. As the bear climbed a tree, McCabe called police who shot the animal five times before it fell to the ground, dead.
WHISTLER, British Columbia - The late-night scratching at the door of my condo would not have been so alarming had I not known that this resort apparently was as appealing to bears as European vacationers. And, if what I'd read about the black bears was to be believed, this was no ordinary breed. These critters reportedly were capable of everything short of deciphering the NBA's salary cap. "Many of Whistler's bears have learned to do things like open car doors or hold spring-closed gates open," read one of the condo's brochures
ALTOONA -- Lake County authorities said a black bear is responsible for breaking into and trashing a car. Investigators said the up to 400-pound bear broke a window to get into the car Monday, then slashed up the back seats to get to two bags of garbage left in the trunk. Deputies said the smell of the garbage was too much for the big bear to resist. The car sustained thousands of dollars in damage. Investigators said they knew a bear was behind the break-in because of the marks it left behind.
TERRACE, B.C. - People around the world can now go online to peek inside the den of a rare kermode bear in B.C. while the animal hibernates.
Two local activists this week said Whistler likely won't see any anti-Olympic protests, unlike the demonstrations that have taken place so far in Vancouver. But that doesn't mean local groups will stop trying to get their message out about the negative impacts of the Games on Whistler...............Ruddy cited deforestation, loss of biodiversity and potential threats to grizzly bear habitat for Whistler Olympic Park development, destroyed wetlands for the Highway 99 expansion and new Whistler transit depot, and energy use at the sliding centre, among other issues.
ARK FALLS -- The snow-rimmed hole where the tree once stood looks like any other ragged cavity left behind when fierce winds uproot white pines like ragweed yanked from a widow's flower garden. But the veteran logger knew it was no ordinary hole, so he silenced his chainsaw and approached for a closer look. The crusty snow tapering into the hole had a frothy quality -- the kind that whitens eyebrows on sub-zero days. He knew what that meant, so he knelt atop the hole and peered inside. Less-experienced eyes might glance and mistake the shadowy-black circle for a bottomless pit. The logger, however, let his eyes adjust and recognized a 3-D shape. He smiled. The old black bear -- a male, most likely -- had made it through another hunting season and returned to the dirt cave to hibernate. The logger and his friend have monitored the den for several winters. This marks the third straight year its occupant is a lone, large bruin, making them think it's an old male.
Imagine running around trapping and collaring black bears and crawling into bear dens! Last year RESA students succeeded in trapping two bears, one at UWSP Treehaven and the other just outside of the city limits near one of the student's homes.
SANFORD, Fla. - A man who says he opened his door and was slapped by a bear pleaded no contest Tuesday to feeding wildlife and was fined $200 and placed on six months' probation. Ernest Stamm, 49, had been ticketed for feeding bears. Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission captured the bear the next day and euthanized it. That angered Stamm's neighbors.
The tribute to the bear known as Elliot was simple and dignified. It featured some brief speeches, a few poems, a reading from John Muir, an a cappellarendition of the old ballad "My Buddy" -- and, the centerpiece of the day, the dedication of a sculpture in one of Ojai's busiest locations. Ojai may be the only town in America with a city-commissioned monument to a bear that met a bad end.
MADISON - Wisconsin wildlife biologists have raised the number of available black bear harvest permits for 2010 by 22 percent compared with 2009. With a new population estimate of about 22,000 bears, and a state bear population goal of 13,000 bears, DNR biologists have established a 2010 harvest quota of 5,235 bears and will issue 8,910 permits.
The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for illegally shooting a black bear in Iberia Parish, La., in early January.
A bill now before the Legislature would restore the decades-old policies regulating guns in Acadia National Park, the St. Croix International Historic Site and the state's portion of the Appalachian Trail. Specifically, it would require gun owners to keep their weapons unloaded, broken down and stowed away in vehicle trunks, glove boxes or other such compartments. LD 1737 should be passed, and legislators should not allow it to turn into a Second Amendment showdown. The bill would restore the gun policy in place since the Reagan administration; last year, Congress and President Barack Obama enacted a credit card reform bill that included an amendment repealing the old law that prohibited people from carrying loaded guns in national parks.
NEW YORK -- Canada will establish North America's newest national park in an isolated corner of Labrador, the government announced Friday. At a press conference in the mining community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Canada's environment minister and top officials from the federal government and province of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the planned Mealy Mountains National Park.
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