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DROUGHT AND BLACK BEARS How Weather Conditions May Be Affecting Black Bears There's actually a good explanation as to why we are much more likely to see black bears out and about in populated areas this summer. That's because the dry conditions we're currently experiencing is affecting the food that black bears usually eat, so they're going elsewhere for food. Visit Drought.gov

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ac0375bf-8880-470c-a2c7-396f4246d97a < Back Slide 6 of 83 < > The forest seemed destined to last for centuries. When cutting began, white pines larger than any in Minnesota today were common -- white pines up to six feet in diameter and over 150 feet tall.

READ ABOUT WRI RESEARCH Read Research from Eagles Nest Township based Wildlife Research Institute VISIT WEBSITE WRI Mission Conduct scientific research on bears, other wildlife, and their habitat, and provide that information to decision-makers, the scientific community, students, and the public. Working with biologist Lynn Rogers, Ph.D., for over 50 years, the Wildlife Research Institute (WRI) is conducting the longest and most detailed black bear study and the largest educational outreach program ever done for black bears. Research focuses on improving coexistence between people and bears in an increasingly urbanized environment. WRI provides the information to over a hundred million people each year through TV, radio, books, magazines, museum exhibits, black bear courses, and the Internet. It created the content for the North American Bear Center's new Visitor Center, which opened near Ely, Minnesota, on May 5, 2007. WRI works with government agencies to improve bear management. WRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by course fees, lecture fees, memberships, donors, merchandise sales, and dedicated volunteers. Want to know more about black bears? Join a Black Bear Course (a field course with wild black bears), and check the North American Bear Center's award-winning website at www.bear.org .

DISCLAIMER: Please keep pets safe and do not let them chase wildlife. It puts you, your pet and wildlife in danger. However we show these videos to reveal the timid nature of black bears to those who might not otherwise believe it. TERRIERS AND TABBIES VS. BLACK BEARS Two Hundred pound bear. Fifty pound dog. Cat chases bear Tiny Dog Chases Bear up Tree || ViralHog Occurred on June 8, 2021 / Hibbing, Minnesota, USA Back Off!! Fearless cat shows bear who's boss Tiny dogs scare off bear from Pasadena home | ABC7 Los Angeles Bulldogs Scare Off Black Bear In NH Backyard

August 24, 2022 Advantage goes to bears as season opens Sept. 1 Hunters’ baits less of a pull for bears luxuriating in a bonanza berry crop A mother bear and her cub rest in the morning sun. This year’s abundant berry crop should limit the take of female bears. M. HELMBERGER Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2022 8:00 pm Marshall Helmberger REGIONAL— What a difference a year makes. Last year in late August, area guides were eagerly awaiting the Sept. 1 start of the bear hunting season. With the region then in extreme drought, natural foods were in short supply and black bears were pounding the baits that guides and hunters use to pull the bruins in close to their stands. This year, after a wet summer and with the lingering effects of a bumper berry crop in much of the area, it’s looking like hunters will have to work harder this time. “It’s making it a lot harder,” said Jesse Brunner, a longtime Cook area bear guide. “The bears are coming in but they’re not hitting like they normally do.” Bear baiting got underway Aug. 15, as allowed by law in Minnesota. Brunner said an abundance of blueberries, raspberries and chokecherries are keeping the bears pretty content out in the woods right now. He noted that one of his baits is located on the edge of a big patch of plump, ripe blueberries. “A bear could just sit out in the middle there and eat all day,” he said. After three years of relatively high hunter harvests, DNR officials are predicting the bears might get a break this fall. “We’re expecting average to below average hunter success,” said Jessica Holmes, the Tower area DNR wildlife manager. The impact of a solid crop of wild foods has been obvious to DNR officials for some time. “My problem bear calls have certainly dropped off,” said Holmes. And if bears aren’t raiding bird feeders and garbage cans, it’s because they’ve got all the food they can handle out in the wild. That’s good news for bears, but Brunner said it’s going to make hunters have to work harder than in the past few years. “They’re just going to have to put the time in, and try a few different things,” he said. A lower harvest would help the DNR in its efforts to recover the bear population, which was cut in half in the 2000s by a series of aggressive harvests. The DNR dramatically dropped the number of bear permits it issues each year in the quota zone, from more than 20,000 in the early-to-mid-2000s to a low of 3,350 in 2017 and 2018. But back-to-back poor food years beginning in 2019 had pushed harvests up again in recent years, including the harvest of female bears, which provide the foundation for population recovery. Female bears are even less likely than males to approach hunters’ baits when wild foods are abundant, so this year’s berry crop could help keep sows out of the crosshairs. And if the sows go into their winter dens with a healthy fat reserve, as is typical in a good food year, they are likely to have a bigger litter come late winter, when the tiny young cubs are born in the den. While conditions in northern St. Louis County are likely to tilt in favor of the bears, that’s not true in every part of Minnesota. Brunner said guides he’s corresponded with in central Minnesota, where the summer was considerably drier, are seeing good activity at their baits. And Holmes said the strong berry crop is somewhat spotty even in the north, depending on where and when rains fell, and how much. For now, Brunner said he’s hoping for drier weather, which will ease access in some places and help to spread his bait scent. Once the season opens next Thursday, hunters will likely be looking for some cooler nights to help chill field dressed meat— assuming they’re successful. “Temperatures below 50 would be ideal,” said Holmes.

d8022a07-8eb3-433d-af1d-01e6aca2b3e0 < Back Slide 25 of 83 < > Fluffy aspen seeds that can blow for miles started the northwoods of today, a forest that is often too dense for young white pines to survive.

7d0a6dc8-4357-4ae8-8718-b879eefc6af0 < Back Slide 76 of 83 < > A special value of the bark on dead white pines is that when it begins to separate from the trunk it creates a space that's an ideal place for bats to give birth and raise their young. The dark bark on a trunk that towers above the other trees absorbs sunlight and becomes warm. In winter, birds take advantage of spaces under the bark for sleeping. dead white pines provide homes and food for as many animals and birds as do live ones.

EAGLES NEST TOWNSHIP Eagles Nest Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eagles Nest Township is a township in Saint Louis County , Minnesota , United States. The population was 243 at the 2020 census. State Highway 1 (MN 1 ) and State Highway 169 (MN 169 ) serve as the main route in the township. The unincorporated community of McComber is located within Eagles Nest Township. Bear Head Lake State Park is located in the southeast portion of the township. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 29.9 square miles (77 km2); 25.2 square miles (65 km2) is land and 4.7 square miles (12 km2), or 15.85%, is water. The Armstrong River flows through the central portion of Eagles Nest Township. Mud Creek flows through the northern portion of the township.

bd3d124d-4971-4261-be7e-3d928f12ad50 Grizzly Heart Grizzly Heart is the remarkable account of how, for the past seven years, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns have defied the preconceptions of wildlife officials and the general public by living unthreatened - and respected - among the grizzly bears on Russia's rugged and glorious Kamchatka Peninsula. At the core is the story of the couple's adoption of three bear cubs and how they helped teach these cubs to survive in the wild. Their project demonstrates that it is possible to forge a respectful relationship with these majestic giants, and provides persuasive reasons for altering our ideas about bears. Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns January 1, 2003 368 Pages:

80e41d83-518d-4368-8398-f2e5ecf74732 The BearDude Story, Data vs Dogma Could a tale about a marijuana grow op guarded by more than a dozen black bears get any weirder? Yes. It was a crime story that all but wrote itself. In 2010, police investigating an outdoor marijuana operation in British Columbia's southern Interior uncovered more than just pot plants. As the officers worked to dismantle the grow op, bears sauntered out of the woods, first six, then another four, and by final count as many as two dozen. When police searched the nearby house of an eccentric recluse, they found a "frantic" Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and a "laid back" raccoon. Allen Piche April 14, 2015 424 Pages: