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All Black Bears Articles
In the north woods of Minnesota, a black bear cub is born. It happens every January, and most of us would not give it a second thought. But this time thousands of people watched a wild bear give birth via a live streaming webcam. The bear's name is Lily. She is a research bear, and she has turned into an internet sensation. Thanks to author and artist Cindy Terry, Lily's story is now a delightful children's book. Filled with true facts about black bears, the story is about Lily and two small friends who stay in Lily's den for the winter as they wait for "the big event." They teach Lily about friendship while teaching the reader about bears.
As summer winds down and bears rush to pack on the pounds before hibernation, at least a few ursines have exhibited unusually aggressive behavior.
Director of Bear Smart Durango Bryan Peterson said unprovoked, aggressive behavior is unusual for black bears, but it's not unheard of.
A recent pair of incidents were reported in which bears exhibited this type of behavior, both taking place in the heart of Durango.
ST. IGNATIUS - We all have horror stories about bad dates.
Andrew White and Dakota Peterson's story might just take the cake.
The two were hiking in the Mission Mountains Aug. 19 only to come 10 yards from a full-grown black bear.
After running from the bear for about 40 minutes, the two made it to their car, half-blind, out of breath and White shoeless, only to have left the keys in the backpack that was dropped at the beginning of the chase.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has drafted a bear management plan that attempts to grapple with all the issues raised by the resurgence of a species that can reach 600 pounds and has a taste for garbage.
The plan calls for setting up local resident groups to work out bear issues; reducing those killed on roads; establishing wilderness corridors to reconnect shrinking, genetically isolated bear populations along the Gulf coast with larger ones inland; and — most controversially — considering whether Florida should reopen bear hunting, banned in 1994.
Conservation officer Simon Gravel confirms that there are at least two bears on Bowen. One has an ear tag, the other doesn’t, and there were two bear sightings five minutes apart in different neighbourhoods.
There are still plans to trap and translocate at least one of the bears because it’s become more comfortable with humans. Conservation officers are also often on the island trying to predict where the bear(s) will be, which makes the public’s co-operation essential. Please call 1-877-952-7277 every time you see a bear so they can track their movements. However, the municipality and RCMP do not need to be contacted unless there is a perceived threat or danger.
A shotgun round fired by Seward police to kill a black bear Thursday night pierced the animal, ricocheted and hit a bystander in the abdomen, police say.
The bear died.
The person? Merely bruised, City Manager Phillip Oates said Friday. "It didn't even penetrate the skin. ... We're very lucky in that case."
Police and conservation officers are investigating an incident involving the death of a bear at the hands of a Pemberton resident who admitted shooting it with a crossbow within municipal boundaries.
Police were called to a home on Dogwood Street in the Pemberton Benchlands on Saturday (Aug. 21) at around 9 p.m., Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair said. A resident had heard a “strange cry” and then spotted a dead bear in her backyard, he said.
He glides with purpose striding smoothly from one edge of the ski trail to the other. His pace is faster than usual - less food more travel. His long neck, like a reversed rudder, angles through the metre-high foliage, eyes alert to colour. With no obvious effort he quickly nibbles a few berries, floppy lips and a protruding tongue finishing one stem while instantly rebounding to an adjacent stem for more. Nothing there. Keep going... keep looking.
He pushes away from the patch and plows through a cluster of regenerating mountain hemlock conifers. Letting the tips brush his underside, he signs his presence for the day.
N. Conway Man Says He Startled Bear When He Threw Trash In Bin
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- A North Conway man needed 16 stitches after an encounter with a Dumpster-diving black bear during the weekend.
Jeff Allard said he was taking out the trash at his apartment complex Sunday night and didn't notice a bear rummaging inside the trash bin. Allard said he tossed his trash into the bin, startling the bear.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina.
Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.
COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP — The 8-year-old 350-pound black bear, named Iroquois, responsible for the death of 24-year-old Brent Kandra, was put down yesterday at the request of the Kandra family, but owner Sam Mazzola said he didn’t think killing the bear is what Kandra would have wanted.
Mazzola, 48, 9978 N. Marks Road, was helping Kandra feed the bear Thursday night when the bear “swiped” at Kandra, severely injuring him, Mazzola said. According to The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, Mazzola had to use a fire extinguisher to get the bear back into its cage and to stop charging at Kandra. Kandra died at 1:30 a.m. Friday at Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center from sharp and blunt force traumas consistent to a bear attack, according to Powell Ceasar, of the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office.
Whistler RCMP officers chased away a bear that ripped into a tent at Riverside Campground on the weekend.
RCMP Sgt. Shawn LeMay said Conservation Officer Dave Jevons was dealing with an unrelated situation in Creekside when he phoned police on Saturday (Aug. 14) at around 8 p.m. to ask for assistance in dealing with the Riverside situation.
Veterinarians in Toronto say they expect a bear cub found unconscious at the roadside to survive an emergency operation and make a full recovery.
The three-month-old, 8.5-kilogram cub was hit by a car last weekend near Huntsville, in the Muskoka region.
OPP officers found the cub and notified a local animsanctuary.
Two bears were found dead Tuesday in the east central section of Yellowstone National Park near Fishing Bridge, the park said in a news release.
A brown adult male grizzly, weighing 576 ½ pounds, was discovered dead about 50 yards off the road one-half mile south of LeHardy Rapids, north of Fishing Bridge. A necropsy to determine its cause of death will be performed in Bozeman.
Lily the Internet-famous black bear near Ely still is with her cub, Hope, but also might be pregnant again.
Researchers Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield say Lily is showing signs of being pregnant, including swollen reproductive organs and recently hanging around male bears.
It’s unusual for a sow black bear to give birth two years in a row, but Lily and Hope’s separation for many days earlier this summer might have spurred her body to go into estrus again.
Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears.
Officers conducting the raid two weeks ago at Christina Lake found a property with two residential buildings and a fenced-off grow-op with about 1,000 plants, police said Tuesday.
But they also found about 10 bears that the owner appeared to be using to keep people from stealing any pot plants, said RCMP Sgt. Fred Mansveld.
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev.-In hot pursuit of a notorious burglar along the shores of Lake Tahoe this year, Carl Lackey organized a night patrol to catch the perp. His tools included a fire extinguisher, pepper spray and two dogs that respond only to commands in Russian.
"These dogs were bred to hunt," says Mr. Lackey, 45 years old.
Bears are increasingly seen in populated areas around Lake Tahoe. Above left, a bear in South Lake Tahoe found leftovers from Memorial Day in 2007.
A black bear cub who became affectionately known as "jarhead" after a plastic container got stuck on its head can eat and drink again after experts removed it.
The clear container was removed from the six-month-old cub's head after it had been wedged on for at least 10 days. The cub poked its head into the jar when digging through rubbish in a central Florida neighbourhood.
Trampling car hoods and breaking into houses, bears have been at it again this summer in Durango . But city officials say a new law is doing some good in reducing the food available in town.
Bear Smart Durango's Bryan Peterson said foraging bears have calmed since this month's monsoons helped sprout new natural food outside town. But it was a crazy June and July.
Whistler following a personal anti-hunting agenda, PWF president says
Council's proposed ban on crossbows has little to do with improving safety and everything to do with impeding hunters' rights, says one advocate.
Clarke Gatehouse, president of the Pemberton Wildlife Federation (PWF) said that bow hunting within RMOW limits hasn't been a safety issue in the past because no one in Whistler has ever been hit with a crossbow.
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