Counting Bears
June 20th, 2008 | by Arthur Published in Environment, Wildlife
If you’ve been out in the Northwoods this year you may have noticed it’s a little easier to catch a glimpse of black bears (hopefully not while the’yre eating your food). While they aren’t as thick as mosquitos, the black bear population is at an all-time high. A study done by Timothy Van Deelen, a wildlife ecology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicates that there are at least twice as many bears as the Wisconsin DNR previously thought. This puts their population at around 26,000 in that state, which is on par with Minnesota and the UP.
Even with the bear population being twice as big as previously thought, the number of Wisconsin bear hunters is around 82,000 people, still greatly outnumbering the bear population.
via the Chicago Tribune and the Wisconsin DNR