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A rehabilitation centre for black bears comes up in Kashmir
Oneindia
Srinagar, Feb 23 (ANI): A modern rehabilitation centre for the Himalayan black bear has been recently set up at the Dachigam National Park, ...
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Trophy Hunting of Bears in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
OnEarth Magazine
There are pictures of grizzlies and black bears on posters and murals all over town, even a huge white Spirit bear was featured in the opening ceremony. ...
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Knoxville Zoo mourns death of Feeber the black bear
WBIR-TV
Zoo officials said the bear was often the first animal that visitors would see when they entered the zoo, and he was one of its most popular residents. ...
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One "Sport" That Doesn't Deserve A Trophy
World-Wire (press release)
The future of the white Kermode or spirit bear is being put at risk because black bears that carry the spirit bear's white fur gene are fair game for trophy ...
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Proposal To Shoot Rogue Bears Appears Dead
LEX18 Lexington KY News
"Black bears are gentle animals who avoid humans when possible, usually only attracted to homes when we make garbage available to them," said Pamela Rogers, ...
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Changes proposed to control growth of state's black bear population
Stockton Record
It hopes to better manage California's burgeoning black bear population that has expanded well beyond its traditional range and quadrupled in the past 25 ...
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Lily's bear cub needs a name
KARE
By Nick Petersen ELY, Minn -- A cub born to a black bear in northern Minnesota needs a name. The North American Bear Center is taking submissions until ...
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Wildlife official: 600-pound bear killed Tuesday was nuisance, would have been ...
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
The 600-pound male black bear shot and killed Tuesday after it apparently charged a law enforcement officer was a nuisance bear that would have been ...
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New mic emits bear facts
Duluth News Tribune (registration)
Ely bear researcher Lynn Rogers has installed a new microphone at the den of Lily the hibernating black bear. The $5000 loaner mic replaces one that emitted ...
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rphaned local bears will awaken to new life
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Elissa Knox, district wildlife manager with the Colorado Division of Wildlife in Grand Junction, helps maneuver a tranquilized black bear into the den. ...
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In bear country, better check locks
Philadelphia Inquirer
And, if what I'd read about the black bears was to be believed, this was no ordinary breed. These critters reportedly were capable of everything short of ...
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“Anna and the Garden Fairy: Anna's Little Black Bear
Greensboro News & Record (blog)
Anna and her fairy friend Emmalina buy a little black bear on a visit to the zoo. They bring him home and play with him and take care of him. ...
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YONA THE BEAR READIES FOR HER PUBLIC DEBUT AT MUSEUM
Durham Herald Sun
Yona, the black bear yearling found by the side of a Tennessee road and reared by Appalachian Bear Rescue, wasn't able to be released back into the wild ...
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Hungry, 400-Pound Bear Trashes Car With Garbage Inside
Central Florida News 13
ALTOONA -- Lake County authorities said a black bear is responsible for breaking into and trashing a car. Investigators said the up to 400-pound bear broke ...
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Deputy shoots bear that charges him near Tahoe
San Jose Mercury News
A sheriff's deputy at Lake Tahoe shot and killed a 600-pound black bear that rushed him after wildlife officials tried to flush the hibernating animal out ...
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How will plans protect Florida black bear, state asks SunWest developers
Tampabay.com
... Times Staff Writer ARIPEKA — State officials say the latest plans for the proposed SunWest Harbourtowne fall short in protecting the Florida black bear. ...
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Impending spring hunt imperils iconic spirit bear
Globe and Mail
Spirit or Kermode bears are a white-coated genetic variation of black bears. Their population is concentrated in an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest, ...
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Police shoot bear for eating pet rabbit
Herald Sun
By Tai Hernandez of FOX News POLICE have shot a 181kg black bear after it ate a pet rabbit in a resident's backyard in New Jersey. ...
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Deputy kills bear at Incline Village during attempt to relocate it
Sacramento Bee (blog)
Two dogs trained to help remove the bear at first couldn't get the 10-year-old male black bear to budge. Subsequently, wildlife department employee Carl ...
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Korea Losing Rights Over Indigenous Wildlife Species
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The center is working to save the Asiatic black bear, an animal native to the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is the only place to import the rare species, ...
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Nevada Deputy Shoots Charging 600-Pound Black Bear
Field and Stream (blog)
Law enforcement officials shot and killed a 600-pound male black bear who apparently charged a wildlife official and a deputy Tuesday afternoon, ...
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Yona the bear on display in Durham
WRAL.com (blog)
By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall Updated 9:28 pm yesterday Yona, the black bear cub found abandoned on a road in Tennessee last year, is now on display at the ...
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Spring Planning
New York Times (blog)
At the sound of thudding boxes, I jumped out of bed, turned on the floodlights, which illuminated a 300-pound black bear, and started yelling obscenities ...
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Reward Offered for Poaching of Threatened Louisiana Black Bear
Media Newswire (press release)
According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a severely injured female Louisiana black bear was found on Coulee Road near Lydia on Jan. ...
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Bear sightings on the rise in DeKalb County
WAFF
By Stephen McLamb DEKALB COUNTY, AL (WAFF) - If you haven't seen a black bear in Northeast Alabama, your chances are increasing. State wildlife experts said ...
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Creators will sign Li'l Smokey book on Saturday
Record-Searchlight
And Adam Deem, the 34-year-old Anderson man credited for rescuing the injured American black bear from the aftermath of the destructive 2008 Moon Fire, ...
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Fun Facts
New Straits Times
The black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard are the only animals with blue tongues. • The tongues of chameleons are as long as their body ...
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Ojai memorializes Elliot, the bear that touched its heart
Los Angeles Times
The sad tale started Oct. 10, when the 400-pound black bear wandered from the surrounding hills into a neighborhood near the heart of Ojai. ...
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Live Updates From Opening Ceremony
New York Times (blog)
Katie Thomas Update | 10:42 pm I stand corrected, the giant bear, which was quite striking, was not a polar bear but a black bear with a recessive gene that ...
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At Risk: Saving Japan's Bears as Forest Habitat Fragments
Japan Focus
In 1990 Maita Kazuhiko set out to capture some bears. Maita, who now directs the Institute for Asian Black Bear Research and Preservation in Hiroshima ...
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Feelings towards bears
Daily Times
There, standing in front of me, was a bear, a big black bear. It was in a position that looked like it was about to jump on me. She loved it. ...
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Asiatic Black Bear Giving Birth Captured on Camera
Arirang News
An Asiatic black bear imported from Russia who now lives on Mt. Jiri has given birth to a cub and for the first time in Korea the labor was captured on ...
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Dazzling images, with irony to match
Vancouver Sun
Then there are black bears. They include the pale genetic variation known as the Kermode or spirit bear. About 3500 black bears were killed in 2006, ...
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Report: Bear spotted near school
McDowell News
... stated: "According to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, the past few decades have seen dramatic increased in both black bear population and range. ...
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Nuisance Black Bear Home Range and Movement
NewsoftheNorth.Net
Imagine running around trapping and collaring black bears and crawling into bear dens! Last year RESA students succeeded in trapping two bears, ...
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Bear Slaps Man In Face, Man Pays Fine
MyFox Illinois
When authorities arrived after Stamm made the emergency call, they found a black bear in the yard. Stamm had multiple cuts on his face and was taken to the ...
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Hibernating bear stars on webcam
CBC.ca
The couple believes it's a male bear, and have named the animal Apollo. The kermode is a member of the black bear family but has a recessive gene that ...
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Black bear breaks into car
MyFoxOrlando.com
We're talking about a big black bear. Lake County Sheriff's Office says the bear broke into a Lois Timmerman's car as it sat in her driveway in Altoona. ...
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Beware Bears! More Hunting May Be Allowed
KMJ Now
Currently, each year no more than 1700 black bears can be hunted. The black bear population in California forests has quadrupled in the past 25 years, ...
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Young black bear trapped, removed
Shoshone News Press
By NICK ROTUNNO PRICHARD — Earlier this winter, around the beginning of January, a young black bear cub was seen wandering the Prichard area, foraging for ...
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Bear Sighted Wandering Through Cumming
WSBtv.com
“I heard this loud growl and I turned around and the bear was standing at the tree,” said Williams. “Full grown black bear, beautiful shiny coat … ...
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Pair of black bear cubs released north of Truckee
San Jose Mercury News
A pair of 1-year-old black bear cubs orphaned last June when their mother was shot near a bay on Lake Tahoe's north shore have been released for winter ...
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Again, a Maine event
Concord Monitor
And with those revelations the Black Bears seem to have covered the great distance that once loomed before them. As they reacquaint themselves with the ...
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Bear hunt could return to NJ
New York Post
Additionally, the bill clarifies that the state Fish and Game Council has sole authority to implement and regulate black bear hunting in New Jersey. ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
NJ Department of Environmental Protection nominee outlines plans for embattled ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Q. Will there be a bear hunt this fall? A. Our biologists are working with the state Fish and Game Council on a comprehensive black bear management plan, ...
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Changes might be coming to bear season
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Mark Ternent, the commission's black bear biologist, said extending the archery bear season wouldn't impact the bear population, which is estimated at more ...
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Your Best Shot: Soaking wet black bear in Wyoming
OregonLive.com
By Terry Richard, The Oregonian Michel HersenMichel Hersen of Portland was looking for a moose when a black bear emerged from a creek dripping wet and ...
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More bear sightings emerge in DeKalb
Times-Journal
He said that's up from no resident black bears just eight years ago. And though there were black bear sightings over the past decade, Nelson said those were ...
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Hibernating Bear Becomes International Superstar
KEYC
The hibernating black bear who gave birth just over a week ago, has become an international superstar.Researcher Lynn Rogers, The Bear Center staff, ...
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State considers expanding annual black bear hunt
San Jose Mercury News
State officials are drafting new rules that could greatly increase the number of black bears that hunters may kill each year. The Department of Fish and ...
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California considers dramatically expanding the number of black...
San Jose Mercury News
By Paul Rogers A black bear leads her family away from the Willits landfill at dusk after they have scrounged for food. Bears aren't just interested in ...
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Statement by The HSUS on Expansion of Black Bear Trophy Hunt in California
Media Newswire (press release)
"The California Department of Fish and Game's proposal to expand trophy hunting of black bears is unwarranted, inhumane and reckless. ...



Tranq'd bear attacks!
Alaska Dispatch
The two-man team was trying to tranquilize and relocate a black bear that had been "marauding" the town after presumably escaping from a Ukranian wildlife ...
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Bearing up
Blount Today
Yona the black bear, weighing only 4 pounds in this photo, was an orphaned cub taken in by the Appalachian Bear Rescue after Tennessee Wildlife Resources ...
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A tour of America's national parks
Fresno Bee
It contains 187000 acres of old-growth forest and is also home to the densest population of black bear in the eastern United States. ...
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Farmer fights fine for slaying bear
Danville News
By Amanda O'Rourke MIFFLINBURG — A Buffalo Township farmer accused of shooting and killing a 400-pound black bear in October will be in court today on the ...
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NewsOK.com (blog)
Oklahoma mountain lion sighting bears monitoring
NewsOK.com (blog)
In any case, it would appear that southeastern Oklahoma — already known for having a growing black bear population — may soon be looking more like it did ...
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Big Bear Hug
Kelowna.com
In a nutshell, this is the story of a big black bear who is far from ferocious. He's a hugger – especially a tree hugger. But when a lumberjack crosses his ...
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Man cleared in killing of black bear
Milton Daily Standard
In early October, he received a citation — $168.50 — by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for killing a 400-pound black bear on his property. ...
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District becoming bear aware
Northern Sentinel
A black bear wandered into the Kitimat Subway in September 2008 looking for food. The district is working diligently to become bear-smart by reducing ...
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Lake City Year in Review for 2009, part 2
South Carolina Now
A black bear, upset and potentially violent because she couldn't find her cub, was roaming through Lake City the night of Oct. 29, authorities said. ...
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Wyoming tallies 2009 grizzly captures/relocations
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Black or grizzly bear relocations occur across North America on a regular basis, said Mark Bruscino, Game and Fish bear management program supervisor in ...
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Blomberg: Winter sets in, but nature keeps stirring
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
They found him standing rigid only a few feet away from a hibernating black bear. Much to their relief, the dog heeded commands to stay put, while the large ...
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Bangor Daily News
Bears' small player making big impact
Bangor Daily News
Black Bear student-athletes will be joining children in four different stations in an effort to keep King's legacy alive. UMaine student-athletes will be ...
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TriCities.com
Bristol man rules world of Critters Taxidermy
TriCities.com
Meanwhile, officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reported a new record for black bear harvest this season with 566. ...
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Looking back at 2009 in the Frontenac EMC
EMC Frontenac
A black bear comes into the village attracted by food in a garbage bin outside a grocery store. The bear attracts a crowd. Fearing for the spectators' ...
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Hardy souls catching steelhead, looking forward to razor clam dig
Access Washington
Hunters who purchased tags for black bear, deer, elk , or turkey last year are reminded that reports on their hunting activities are due by Jan. ...
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Ask A Bear: How Should I Handle A Mama Black Bear With Cubs?
Backpacker Magazine (blog)
Ask our resident bruin expert in our weekly feature, 'Ask A Bear.' Q: I had a question about a close black bear encounter I had, which I think nearly got me ...
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Durham museum takes in bear cub left by her mom
News & Observer
DURHAM -- An abandoned black bear will get a new home at the Museum of Life and Science this month. Currently she is in the care of Appalachian Bear Rescue ...
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Turnagain Times Sea Kayaking in Prince William Sound builds comraderie between Challenge ...
Turnagain Times
A robust black bear with sleek shiny fur and a roundish frame was spotted. We approached quietly for a view. The bear was characteristically engrossed with ...
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Webcam expected to show black bear giving birth in Ely
Minnesota Public Radio
Today, just outside Ely, a camera was installed in den where a black bear named Lily is currently hibernating. That camera will provide pictures and video ...
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