Black Bears

Brenda · Tue May 13, 2008 10:15 am

Who knows? I do know that they're thick as thieves and even if someone did do something wrong it's highly unlikely that anything would be done about it. I could tell you some stories.

cbobcat49 · Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:24 pm

A recent post on the New York Outdoors Blog...

http://newyorkoutdoors.wordpress.com/20 ... hern-tier/

Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:35 am

They have a taste for Peanut Butter now. It's only a matter fo time before we are overrun.

Brenda · Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:03 am

I was talking with one of my sisters over the weekend and she said that her bird feeder at her house in Ovid was taken down by a bear. I asked her if she put the feeder back up and she didn't (amazing). I asked her if she called anyone and she said that she did (drama queen that she is). I explained that unless a bear is posing a threat or being a repeated nuisance it shouldn't be reported. I pointed out the DEC's apparent two-strike rule. She was somewhat indignant and said that she just reported it and what "they" decided to do with it is up to them.

backpacker · Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:32 am

sisterly love

Brenda · Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:35 am

Something like that...

Brenda · Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:42 pm

Well, I'm very sorry to report that the decision was made to open up my area to Black Bear hunting this season. I'm in 8S.

cbobcat49 · Wed May 27, 2009 8:17 pm

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/684227.html?imw=Y

'Dead dog' on I-190 turns out to be a 100-pound bear
By Gene Warner

The initial call came in just before midnight Tuesday, the report of an apparently dead dog that had been struck and killed on the Niagara Thruway, just a few miles south of downtown Buffalo.

Trooper Randall Shenefiel found otherwise, when he responded to the southbound Niagara Thruway between Seneca and Smith streets.

"He gets there and determines that the animal is actually a black bear cub that had been struck [and killed] by a vehicle," State Police Capt. Michael P. Nigrelli said.

The bear, found lying in the road, was a yearling, an approximately 1 1/2-year-old male weighing about 110 pounds, the state Department of Environmental Conservation revealed after further investigation.

Troopers moved the bear's body onto the shoulder of the road before maintenance workers removed the carcass later this morning.

The black bear was the second one to be killed in traffic in Erie County in the last two weeks. And the location this time was even more startling — just a couple miles from downtown Buffalo.

On the night of May 15, a driver on the Aurora Expressway in the Town of Aurora struck and killed another young black bear, although that one was considered older than a cub.

"It was like a straightforward car-deer accident, but it happened to be a bear," East Aurora Police Officer Darren Longboat said the next day.

So that's two young bears killed 11 days apart, both in more residential areas than bears normally are found.

"This is very unusual, that these animals are displaced to the point that they're coming into a residential area," Nigrelli said. "If they're roaming around a residential area like this, there's cause for concern."

The bears are out of their element and skittish, so Nigrelli advised caution for anyone who gets near one that has been struck.

"Do not approach an injured bear," he said. "We don't know enough about bears to predict their actions. "

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