Archive | Monday Bear-Blogging

There’s no real rush hour in Yellowstone National Park, but there can be traffic. Most often the commuters that cause these traffic jams are bison (which have a tendency to cross roads whenever and wherever they please). But others cause trouble too, such as these two fellas we saw Sunday.

Blogging’s been light because we’ve been on the road.  Sunday morning we caught a glimpse of another brown bear in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park in Gallatin Canyon.  One picture came out okay — but it was nothing compared to the moose picture we were able to get last night in the Tetons.

The NYT reports on an apparent increase in human-bear encounters in the western U.S. Bears — dangerous and unpredictable always — are prowling broader areas of the West in closer contact with people than ever. In some places, drought is driving the animals out of their wilder haunts and into human settlements. Longer-term climate change, […]

I spent yesterday afternoon and early evening in Yellowstone with my family and the animals were out in force. We saw dozens of buffalo and elk, of course, but also a half-dozen pronghorn, and (of critical importance) two young black bears, one by the petrified tree turnoff and the other by Roosevelt Junction. Both were […]

Bear sightings are on the rise in Ohio. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there were 119 sightings in 2009 and 164 in 2010. Official estimates of Ohio’s black bear population remain quite low. Increased sightings, if evidence of growing bear numbers, would be a positive sign. On the other hand, increased sightings could also be […]

Mama bears are the most dangerous, especially when they are protecting their cubs, right?  Perhaps not.  A new study suggests that most black bear attacks in the United States are by male bears, according to the NYT. The study also found, contrary to popular perception, that the black bears most likely to kill are not […]

CNN has this video of a black bear who was recently found wandering about a residential neighborhood in Virgina Beach. Here in the nearby wilds of Arlington, Virginia, I have seen numerous foxes, deer, and rabbits near our house, but so far no bears. Perhaps they avoid the area for fear of being featured in […]