Broken branches on small trees that produce bear foods. In northeastern Minnesota, look for places bears were eating willow catkins, mountain-ash berries, juneberries, cherries, and wild plums. Bears pull the branches down, and some of them break. Disheveled food producing bushes, often with bear paths winding among them. In northeastern Minnesota, check patches of hazelnut, dogwood, highbush cranberry, and wild plum bushes, among others.
Rocks turned over to get ant pupae and larvae. Logs and stumps torn open to reach ant colonies or grubs. Torn up sod to find june beetle grubs. Leaves raked to get fallen nuts and acorns. Once the bear had other food sources, it moved on from this site.
This is the bear who made and used the above-ground den shown in the two photos above. When I discovered the den, I set up a trail camera to monitor the bear's activities at the site. The bear's bed is located behind him on the left, just beneath those redwoods. In this photo, you can see the scat pile that is shown in the first photo above. Over time and many videos, I was able to determine that this is a male bear. He has a very big range and I have tracked him over a couple miles of his territory so far.
It's difficult to map it all out since male bears can range much further than females. A different view showing the black bear's above-ground den site. The bed is located in the center of the photo, just on the other side of the fallen log. In this view, you can see how much bark was damaged by the bear in its nest gathering activities.
These trees are not permanently damaged. The bear did not remove the bark down to the cambium layer, so the trees will live and be just fine. In the back right, you can see my pack on the ground. Just above that is the trail camera attached to a tree.
This is how I obtained the photos and videos of the bear at this site. This is a close-up view showing the redwood tree bark that the bear used for nest material. The tree at the back right shows the normal appearance of redwood bark. The tree in the foreground shows extensive damage done by the bear gathering nesting material for its "mattress. This bear bed had the best view I have seen yet!
The bear constructed its bed at the edge of the forest, near an opening in the tree canopy. It was located at the edge of the hilltop and overlooked the other side of the canyon below. From this location, you can see for miles! The bear's bed was at the base of a pine tree and is seen in the shaded area of the photo above. Pine trees are not native to this area, but were planted following logging in some areas. This is the stunning view seen from the black bear's bed in the photo above.
You can literally see for miles from up here! That bear picked a great spot to rest. You are visitor number: All counters on my site reset in October Text, photos, videos, and drawings by Kim A. Cabrera - Desert Moon Design.
Find bears and bear tracks items in my new store. Greeting cards, hats, calendars, posters, t-shirts, stickers, clocks, and much more. Custom bear products are available.
Just send me an email with your request. What else can you find in the nature store? Beartracker's T-shirts, sweatshirts, journals, book bags, toddler and infant apparel, mouse pads, posters, postcards, coffee mugs, travel mugs, clocks, Frisbees, bumper stickers, hats, stickers, and many more items. All with tracks or paw prints, or nature scenes. Custom products are available. Last to go are males, which stay active as long as they can find food.
Since the largest males are the ones that breed, there is often a trade-off in staying out later into the fall or even into winter. Which brings up the argument about whether or not bears hibernate. Their fat cells also release leptin, a hormone that prevents loss of bone mass. It describes what they do.
Denning up, hibernating — whatever you choose to call it — allows bears to conserve energy during the long, cold months when there is little to eat.
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