I have spent a life time around black bears. They don't really worry me. Now I have serious respect for grizzlies and brown bears. There is no way I would let a sow with cubs of one of those breeds hang around. This bear comes in after dusk and leaves before it gets light in the morning. Also my dogs blow up every time she comes around. They do a real good job of letting us know that she is here.
Yeah there's more, the wildlife folks were saying just wayward young male bears in our area around 20 years ago, at that time another wildlife man told a neighbor that there had to be atleast 3 in our area due to the timing of sightings.
You are more Eastern than us. I thought there had been bears there forever.
She has found something she likes better. I figured she would visit until every apple was gone.
I have a tag. It is open season. But you can't shoot a sow with small cubes. Since the fire burned all of their habitat everyone in the area who has a fruit tree has a bear.
Sounds like you should just name it and become friends.
Why the H*ll would you name a bear or any other wildlife. There are people like you at Yellowstone Park making the news by petting the buffalo.
They've been here a while, but when I was a child there weren't any, that we knew of. Once they were in the Red River Gorge area, they weren't long until they came here.
