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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....

4d4972d1-de24-4fd9-8c90-c0ab0aff5d67 < Back Play Between Cubs Cubs played with each other. Previous Next

98362f04-ea94-4c19-bfe8-25d19f20a6bd < Back Slide 21 of 83 < > The result was huge, unnatural forest fires that killed the seedlings and hundreds of people -- the Hinckley fire, the Cloquet fire, and others.

580ca15e-e7df-4e25-8418-0b0a68ef83f4 < Back Slide 65 of 83 < > They left their cubs at the bases of them when they went off to forage because the cubs could safely climb to escape danger.

2222b5be-c5bc-4d43-867d-0f9c85a3ed2d < Back Slide 13 of 83 < > People needed jobs, so they continued cutting the remnants of the white pine forest, seeking out smaller and smaller white pine forests and even cutting the lone white pines scattered through other forest types.

e0f34fbe-a0ee-4523-8e28-47071525fa18 < Back Birth of Cubs! Birth! Listen for the sound of a cub and the welcoming grunts of the mother. Notice the bedding made of chewed up logs. Previous Next

de777672-a369-4759-9bf6-ff2b42b81a56 Spirit Bear: Encounters With the White Bear of the Western Rainfores Written with vivid detail and passion, Spirit Bear is the story of acclaimed naturalist Charles Russell’s journey to study and learn from the extraordinary spirit bears on the remote Princess Royal Island. From early experiences observing black bears in the Rocky Mountains with his father, the well-known writer and broadcaster Andy Russell, to nerve-racking encounters with grizzlies in British Columbia’s Khutzeymateen Valley, Charles Russell has spent a lifetime studying bears in their natural habitat. In 1991, Russell visited Princess Royal Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of British Columbia. There, amidst the rivers and trees of the western rainforest, he encountered the elusive spirit bear. Known to scientists as the Kermode bear and to the public as the white, ghost, or spirit bear, these extraordinary animals have never been exposed to civilization. In Spirit Bear, Russell recounts his experiences on Princess Royal Island ― trekking over rocks and through streams; waiting hours for the evasive ghost bear to appear; and finally coming face-to-face with a spirit bear only inches from his nose. Illustrated with over 100 stunning colour photographs, Spirit Bear provides beautiful and astonishing insight into the habits and nature of the Kermode bear, and is part of an ongoing effort by conservationists to save Princess Royal Island as a sanctuary for these remarkable animals. Charlie Russell January 1, 1994 144 Pages:

250ae0c7-212b-49b9-8d2d-4e9ee8a07fd4 Feeding Whether climbing trees for nuts, fruits and flowers or pulling down branches, black bears leave abundant evidence of their feeding activity.

5d5e8e6d-8887-4620-9f1b-062f1d2f6744 < Back Slide 72 of 83 < > One of their special values is they often become hollow, like this one, and make homes for larger wildlife than does any other northern tree.