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A black bear was seen taking a stroll through a ... If you leave him or her alone you will be fine. The bear has an ear tag and the PA Game Commission has been notified. Thank you for your ...
SOMERSET ― Hunters have killed more than 2,100 Pennsylvania black bears so far this ... They check for ear tags and tattoos to see if the bear had been trapped and documented by the agency.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission's preliminary ... 14 years old as the Game Commission had captured the bear in 2016 and placed an ear tag on it. It weighed 275 pounds at the time it was caught ...
A black bear is wandering through Lancaster County and is not expected to leave the area anytime soon. The Pennsylvania Game ...
TILDEN TWP., Pa. — It was a startling sight in the Hamburg area of Berks County. A man's home camera system caught a glimpse ...
Jojo and her dad, Danny, with her first black bear, 2024 buck, and fall gobbler. Photos courtesy of Danny Roberts When fall arrives, the Roberts family disappears into the woods. Danny Roberts, a ...
An adult female black bear with her cubs in a den. Pa. Game Commission staff placed metal tags in the bears' ears that will help the agency identify the animals in the future. With black bears ...
A 7-year-old Pennsylvania girl is celebrating getting a black bear, a buck and a gobbler in ... while smiling from ear to ear, no doubt." Thinking about Jojo’s accomplishments, her father ...
Typically in those four days, bear hunters tag nearly half of all the bears shot in a given year. Of the 2,920 black bears shot in Pennsylvania last year, 1,086 were shot in the four-day gun season.
BLACK BEAR ATTACKS ARE VERY RARE, BUT PROBLEMS WITH BEARS HAVE INCREASED IN RECENT YEARS AS THE POPULATION HAS GROWN SHARPLY, PARTICULARLY IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHICH IS WHERE ...
The man, named Andrew Nierer, was attacked by the small black bear on a street in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, after walking back from the store along a trail through the woods. In security footage ...
A rare black bear ... The male bear, now known as BB-12, was captured last week in the western Santa Monica Mountains, where National Park Service biologists attached an ear tag and GPS radio ...