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Old 09-02-2010, 10:56 AM
 
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How far north do you have to go to be in "bear territory". I've lived in Minnesota for 30 years and have never seen a bear other than at the zoo.

Den Cam Updates (http://www.bear.org/website/lily-a-hope/live-den-cam.html - broken link)

http://www.bear.org/website/lily-a-hope/den-cam-video-clips.html (broken link)
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Old 09-02-2010, 12:02 PM
 
Location: MN
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Sorry....I was being cynical: *I* don't care about hunting.

But, to each his own....
Yea... probably shouldn't have asked that in Minnesota... Hunting is in Minnesota culture just like hockey, our accents and hotdishes. The hunting society is a trademark left over from our ancestors of Germany, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Plus, the MN DNR is incredible. they do such great things in preserving the nature of our state
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Old 09-02-2010, 12:05 PM
 
Location: MN
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How far north do you have to go to be in "bear territory". I've lived in Minnesota for 30 years and have never seen a bear other than at the zoo.
I saw a bear the first week I lived in Duluth. Just sittin' there on the side of the road. Camping a few years back our campsite was raveged by a Black Bear. They're little cutie patooties though.
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Old 09-02-2010, 12:39 PM
 
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I believe it was just a few months ago when out on Grand around the US bank that a black bear was tree'd and as it was getting down it ran across the street toward the hill and the trees. It made the local news

Also maybe 5 or 6 years ago?? down on the lake walk out toward the ped bridge near London Rd. unfortunatley a black bear was spotted and cornered on the rocks down near the water, and needed for public protection and the fact that the authorities claimed there was not available/or not enough time to wait for tranqulizer gun to show up, the bear was shot dead.
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Old 09-02-2010, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Carver County, MN
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I saw one near North Branch before. That is the farthest south that I have ever seen one.
I'm kind of embarassed to admit it, but St. Cloud is the furtherst north in Minnesota that I have ever been which is about the same latitude as North Branch I suppose.
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Old 09-02-2010, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Carver County, MN
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I lived in the Woodland neighborhood of Duluth for all of eight months and saw a black bear in our yard three different times in that short time.

But they do find their way south to the Cities now and then:
Black Bear Sighting in Oakdale (http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/black-bear-sighting-oakdale-apr-13-2010 - broken link)

Or even further south:
Black bear seen roaming northern Iowa

We had a moose spotted here in SW Minnesota once a few years ago. It had to be put down though as it had some kind of brain wasting disease, which I assume would be why it was this far south.
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Old 09-02-2010, 02:33 PM
 
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We had a moose spotted here in SW Minnesota once a few years ago. It had to be put down though as it had some kind of brain wasting disease, which I assume would be why it was this far south.
Goes for just about anybody around there...
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Old 09-02-2010, 02:39 PM
 
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Yea... probably shouldn't have asked that in Minnesota... Hunting is in Minnesota culture just like hockey, our accents and hotdishes. The hunting society is a trademark left over from our ancestors of Germany, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Plus, the MN DNR is incredible. they do such great things in preserving the nature of our state
Having a dad who was a transplant from Illinois and a mom from Southern MN where hunting isn't really that big of a deal sort of gave me a built-in immunity to the hunting itch....

I'll take baseball, hiking, and any of a number of things you can do on a lake as my Minnesota pastimes instead...

Oh, and the DNR is incredible!
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Old 09-02-2010, 04:24 PM
 
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Having a dad who was a transplant from Illinois and a mom from Southern MN where hunting isn't really that big of a deal sort of gave me a built-in immunity to the hunting itch....

I'll take baseball, hiking, and any of a number of things you can do on a lake as my Minnesota pastimes instead...

Oh, and the DNR is incredible!
I think with all the Corn, Illinois has some of the biggest bucks around for deer hunting, but like you said, to each their own.
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Old 09-08-2010, 05:33 AM
 
Location: Durm
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Ghenghis many of the collared research bears also have brightly colored ribbons made of duct tape.

Sadly, one was killed over the weekend - a yearling. The Wildlife Research Institute researchers feel it would have been hard to miss those ribbons. The collar was turned in anonymously (left in the DNR mailbox, in fact). It's very, very sad because the WRI only has 13 research bears and has been studying this clan for a long time.
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