A bear in a residential area of North St. Paul was shot and killed today by a Minnesota DNR conservation officer as authorities determined the animal posed an immediate safety threat.
Hunters took 1,295 black bears during the 2018 hunting seasons, down from 1,420 the previous year.
Pennsylvania agency offers live online streaming of bears and snow geese.
Expansion of Pennsylvania bear season intended to deal with growing population.
Hopes were high in 2018 with a bear population estimated at 20,000 and a fine start to the November firearms season, but unfavorable weather conditions kept harvest down. Still, there were highlights, including the harvest of a nearly 800-pound bruin, and hopes remain high for next year, too.
Bernie Barringer with the blonde black bear he arrowed to complete the black bear grand slam. (Photo courtesy of Bernie Barringer)The bear was on the modest side by most standards. But when one of the foremost black bear hunters in the world says the 250-pound bruin was the most remarkable bear he has ever shot, well, you wonder … What…
Two of the state’s four bear management zones in far north-central Wisconsin and south-central Wisconsin will see decreases in available permits to combat a declining bear population in the north and growing hunter density in the south.
There were reportedly around 800 incidents of bear-human conflicts in 2018 compared to only 410 for 2017. There also was an increase in bear killings by the state and residents, both of which are legal.
The possibility of tweaking the hunting rules has sounded alarms in the hunting and animal welfare communities in state that boasts one of the largest black bear population in the country.
Wardens searching for bear, going door-to-door to inform neighbors about the attack and to share safety measures.
State also sees 10 percent increase in black bear harvest – 1,993 compared to 1,796 in 2017 – and more bears are yet to be taken in extended seasons in many Wildlife Management Units.
One of the more intriguing bears taken was a 679-pound male shot at 5 yards with a .357 handgun.
With cooperative weather, particularly on opening day Nov. 17, hunters primed to overtake state’s record 4,350 bear harvest, set in 2011. And Game Commission bear biologist says Penn’s Woods hold bigger bears, too, at least 800-pounders.
It’s the first time deer and bear archery seasons have been held at the same time in Pennsylvania.
In 2017, 1,691 bears were taken. This year, preliminary numbers appear to be slightly below the 1,500-target harvest.
Researchers with the DNR are monitoring about 30 radio-collared black bears across the state, and asked hunters to voluntarily avoid shooting these valuable research subjects. They obliged.
(Photo by Windigo Images)TRENTON, N.J. — A total of 139 bears were killed during the first six-day period of New Jersey’s annual black bear hunt, as expected a steep drop from last year’s total following restrictions imposed by the governor. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this year barred bear hunting on state-owned lands, removing roughly 40 percent of the lands where…
CANTON, Conn. — Tom Bradley had grown accustomed to seeing black bears walk through his Connecticut neighborhood, but this month he was alarmed to find something trying to turn a doorknob to enter his house. He used his key fob to set off his car horn, to scare away whatever was in his garage. When he went outside, he saw…
After New Jersey governor bans bear hunting on state property, Pennsylvania Game Commission expects “visitors.”
(Minnesota DNR)With the bear hunting season set to begin Saturday, Sept. 1, the Minnesota DNR asks that hunters avoid shooting research bears marked with distinctively large, colorful ear tags and have radio-collars. Researchers with the DNR are monitoring about 30 radio-collared black bears across the state, especially in zones 27, 25 and 45, and in parts of the no-quota zone….
(Photo by Windigo Images)MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Black Bear sightings in the Twin Lakes Area are increasing due to a lack of food, according biologist Allen Cathey with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Normally, sightings of the bears increase during the spring. However, recent dry weather has caused a shortage of their primary food source during the summer. “It’s…
Even 700 bears for today’s population is an overestimate, because it counts a different subspecies of black bears brought from Minnesota in the 1960s for sport hunting, the lawsuit contends.
HANOVER, N.H. — A bear that was relocated to northern New Hampshire a week ago after she and her cubs were raiding trash bins and bird feeders near Dartmouth College in Hanover is on the move, traveling nearly 70 miles in seven days as she likely tries to find her way back home and to her cubs. The bear was…
Bears quickly learn how to acquire food, and in some cases that means intimidating humans or even destroying property, including vehicles.The early black bear hunting seasons in New York are still a couple months away. However, summer ushers in a bear season of its own, where it’s the bears that are doing the hunting – for food. This can be…
(Photo by Windigo Images)MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s top game warden is among 100 successful bear hunters who failed to comply with a new regulation that they submit a tooth from the bear they shot so it can be studied by biologists. The regulation that hunters submit a pre-molar tooth within 48 hours of shooting a bear was new for the…
According to the lawsuit, the state has authorized about 900 black bears to be killed since 2010 using bait, dogs and traps.
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