The baiting of black bears starts in April and goes through to the end of September. That’s roughly six months…
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A Mother black bear will teach her cubs everything they need to know in order to survive.
The Black Bear moves softly through the berry patch showing her cubs the way, teaching her cubs where to find…
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The 2019 Wisconsin black Bear Management draft plan is now available to the public for comment.
Click the highlighted words to read, review and comment on the plan. A draft of the revised bear management plan…
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The Hungry Orphaned Black Bear Cubs…
Mother bear sends her cubs quickly up a tree, as she makes herself the decoy, and leads the mob of…
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Please Take Action: Only You Can Prevent #Extinction…
As a child growing up in the sixties I learned to respect our fellow creatures and to set things right.…
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Let’s bring back the heart in conservation management…
Do not feed the bears. I have followed the career of Dr. Jane Goodall since childhood. I remember watching National…
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Human food subsidies make up more than 40% of the diet of bears in northern Wisconsin.
In a new research paper, titled “Consumption of intentional food subsidies by a hunted carnivore” authored by: Rebecca Kirby of…
Read MoreCenturies of Black Bear Natural History Lost in a matter of Six Decades
The Black Bear has lived for centuries foraging, living off the land; it is the natural history of his kind.…
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Hunting the bear by Nick Vander Puy
During the height of the struggle for Ojibwe spear fishing and treaty rights in the summer of 1989 several Indian,…
Read MoreNorth Woods Living, Tips for ‘Coexisting with Your Wild Neighbors’
Living in the north woods near wild animals can be a wonderful experience. There is nothing that can match sighting…
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