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ec589e17-d5fb-4b47-b640-14d9407dbe92 < Back Slide 5 of 83 < > . . . pine martens, and dozens of colorful birds like pine grosbeaks and red crossbills.

3944bc24-b63d-41f5-9e12-1d8464cc285b < Back Slide 12 of 83 < > People thought Minnesota's white pine forests were inexhaustible -- and the forests did support a booming industry for almost a hundred years -- but in 1932 the white pine industry collapsed.

95aad93f-3453-4cac-ba51-4977c1085e9d < Back Slide 81 of 83 < > Plant white pine seedlings on your property! Seedlings and trees can be obtained from Minnesota nurseries that grow seedlings adapted to Minnesota conditions.

0f00d27e-c55f-46c0-bc01-b8e0ef2f7980 < Back Rambunctious Cubs When snow delayed emergence, these two cubs decided to play Beary-Go-Round. This was near the end of a denning period of 225 days—nearly 7 ½ months. Previous Next

71952395-0fcd-41a8-8957-a9654216cc7b BLACK BEAR DIET Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus May Spring Skunk cabbage grows in wetlands in eastern North America. It gets it name from the smell given off when a leaf is bruised. It’s the first plant to bloom in the spring(Feb. or more often March). It can generate its own heat to melt the snow around it. Foul smell is to attract flies for pollination. Forms large colonies of plants. Plants can live for 20 years.Skunk cabbage has medium toxicity to humans as it contains calcium oxalates in its raw form. Plant grows deeper into the mud, so in effect it grows downwards as it grows older. It is nearly nearly impossible to remove the roots of older plants. This is often the first plant that bears eat out of the den (the roots in particular).

25fda265-f9a8-462b-a2a5-821f5c1acc13 < Back Slide 24 of 83 < > Years passed. People tried farming the cleared areas, but one by one the farms failed and the people moved away. The land started to become forest again -- but not usually white pine forest. The big white pines that were needed for seed were mostly gone.

MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS A problem for BEARS is not so much what we DON'T know, it's what we THINK we know that isn't true . Dr. Lynn Rogers Ph.D. Learn More To Feed or Not to Feed Consequences of feeding black bears? Learn More Are black bears like dogs? Learn More Bears stink, mothers and cubs, bears lurking in the woods and more....

879cacf3-290b-4888-9879-58b2091c2b06 BLACK BEAR DIET Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides April Late Winter Quaking Aspen is one of the first trees to leaf out in the spring.

FIFTY YEARS LIVING WITH THE GREAT BEARS "Fifty Years Living with the Great Bears" Charlie Russell at Vermilion College, Ely, MN June 28, 2013

6a04b59a-c574-414d-8371-a324c0d83aa1 Black Bear: North America's Bear (Kids Book) Three species of bear inhabit North America: the grizzly, the polar bear, and the black bear. But the American black bear is truly North America's bear, found only in North America. Black bears range from Canada to Mexico, from New England to California. There may be as many as 750,000 black bears roaming the forests and mountains of the continent. With its large population, and with more people moving into black bear territory, it's important that we understand this magnificent animal. Stephen R. Swinburne takes us to where black bears live. He joins biologists in search of bears in the Pennsylvania woods, where a mother bear is examined and her cubs tagged. He visits a "school teacher" for orphaned cubs who teaches them how to survive in the wild. Along the way, he offers his personal observations together with fascinating facts about black bears and their world. (Did you know that in the autumn, black bears consume as much as twenty thousand calories a day? That's equivalent to forty-two hamburgers!) With stunning full-color and archival photographs, this lively book shows how North America's bear behaves and survives. Stephen R. Swinburne December 1, 2009 32 Pages:

2d60ed1c-e70e-4290-bdf1-afc4e94ac4e6 < Back Cubs Nursing Black bear cubs make motor-like pleasure sounds as they nurse.

df7d0f30-2448-41f8-b85f-2f3053bae9fb Shredded Logs and Stumps Black bears shred logs and stumps looking for ants and grubs.