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Now this is something you don't see every day in the Seacoast. I lived in Rye for 24 years and never spotted a bear. Coyotes and pretty much everything else but never a bear. Hard to tell from the article exactly where it took place since the article states the area of Wallis and Clark Roads, but those two roads don't intersect anywhere.
Now's the time for backyard bears, often falling over drunk from gobbling up fermented windfall crabapples
I'm surprised you don't get many bears, they're around from spring through fall down here in central-southern NH (our bear population is nothing compared to Maine, where they have +35,000 bears, more than all the other New England states combined).
Perhaps black bears are rare in Rye because the coastal towns either lack good habit and/or people have made the region inhospitable, too cleared/paved/populated?
I'm surprised you don't get many bears, they're around from spring through fall down here in central-southern NH (our bear population is nothing compared to Maine, where they have +35,000 bears, more than all the other New England states combined).
Perhaps black bears are rare in Rye because the coastal towns either lack good habit and/or people have made the region inhospitable, too cleared/paved/populated?
Maine has just under 50% of New England's total land mass and even more of it's undeveloped wilderness, so the bear count makes sense. Where I am, it's hard to tell what's a Maine bear and what's a New Hampshire bear though. I never see bears crossing the highway, so the more of those you've got, the fewer bears, I think.
Maine has just under 50% of New England's total land mass and even more of it's undeveloped wilderness, so the bear count makes sense. Where I am, it's hard to tell what's a Maine bear and what's a New Hampshire bear though. I never see bears crossing the highway, so the more of those you've got, the fewer bears, I think.
Good points.
I've seen what happens when you hit a deer at highway speeds, I shudder to think about nearly-invisible black bears on highways at night.
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Now's the time for backyard bears, often falling over drunk from gobbling up fermented windfall crabapples
Bears are not chickens, but they do chicken out
