Local author, artist shows young readers life inside a real bear's den

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"WEST LIBERTY - In the north woods of Minnesota, a black bear cub is born. It
happens every January, and most of us would not give it a second thought. But
this time thousands of people watched a wild bear give birth via a live
streaming webcam."

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Lily and Hope’s friends become Facebook fundraisers | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

"Combine the public’s fascination with two Ely-area black bears with the instant global connection of Facebook, and what do you get?"

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Nevada: Bear hunting season pursued for Nevada | rgj.com | The Reno Gazette-Journal

"Nevada wildlife commissioners are pursuing plans to establish a bear hunting season for the first time in state history, saying Nevada’s bruin population now is stable enough to allow for one."

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Black bears: Florida tries to get a grip on expanding bear population - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

"In the 1950s, pounded by wide-open hunting and the loss of habitat to farms and cities, Florida's black bears had become ghosts of the forests, elusive and rarely seen."

Read more:Black bears: Florida tries to get a grip on expanding bear population - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com:

Pennsylvania: Wayne County man convicted of bear kill

"Raymond Carl Kresge Sr., 66, of Gouldsboro, Wayne County, was found guilty of unlawfully possessing a 600-pound male black bear, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation officer Jim McCarthy, who investigated the case and filed the charges on June 21."


Read full article: Wayne County man convicted of bear kill - Outdoors | Centre Daily Times - State College, PA | Penn State, Nittany Lions, weather, news, jobs, homes, apartments, real estate:


Bear Head Lake State Park can win $100,000 grant from Coca Cola. Vote in the Your Favorite Park contest. VOTE HERE!

More Exposures: Minn. State Park Leading Smokies In Contest

"A Minnesota state park is more than half a million votes ahead of the Smokies in an online contest for favorite parks that nets the winner $100,000."

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Minnesota Sports Bears

Who doesn't loves sports and bears -- get your own state related bear Team Bear....

Lily Fans and Voting for Bear Head Lake State Park in Coke Contest!

Lily Fans and Voting for Bear Head Lake State Park in Coke Contest!

Bears Head Lake State Park in Minnesota is in the territory of the WRI reseach bears and is located in Ely, Minnesota. These bears are part of multi-generational research study of the behavior of the black bear in this area and is fascilitated by Dr. Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfied. In addiion, the park is located near the Boundary Waters Wilderness and part of some of the most pristine, natural and beautiful water landscapes in the nation. Pease support the Lily Fans who have taken to task to keep this park in the top spot to win the Coca Cola grant so the PARK can use the funds to iimprove facilities and/or needed upgrades and repairs to the park utilities.

It is part of the overall Lily Fan plan to bring attention to the true nature of the black bear as well as, help to put Ely, MN even more on the map and assist the people with different projects including voting to win funds for education. Also, they are helping to raise awareness for the need of protection and conservation of other critically endangered bear species around the world and to support the North American Bear Center when called upon in all their efforts incuding expanding public programs to provide educational modules on bears to schools and libraries around the country and eventually to other nations.

Unfortunately, many might misunderstand our motives which have been openly criticized in print. Our competitors recently called us a "mean bunch" because of our energy to do these things. As a Lily Fan, I can tell you all of us work very hard to support these efforts and create new projects/ideas to recruit "volunteers" and raise support and awareness which are critical to these efforts. We are not just a "typical Facebook fan base" but one that is active to raise awareness and funds for a wildlife non-profit organization while developing wonderful friendships along the way. As far as this contest is concerned, the remarks made by our competitors makes me question their sportsmanship because we overtook them for the top spot almost 4 weeks ago. If you would like more information about bears or Lily Fans or just want to share in what has become a wonderful and "giving" journey- come see us at Lily the Black Bear on Facebook. Also, please volunteer and help us in any one of the many projects the Lily Fans are now engaged in!!! Lastly, if you support the efforts by Lily Fans -- then please copy this event to your wall!


Thank You.


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Support Bear Head Lake State Park win $100,000 grant from Coca Cola in Vote for Your Favorite Park. VOTE HERE!




Note: Photo is not taken at Bear Head!

Researchers appealing to hunters to spare the radio-collared bears | FOX 21 Online

Researchers appealing to hunters to spare the radio-collared bears FOX 21 Online: "Researchers appealing to hunters to spare the radio-collared bears"

Cyber Park Battle

"ELY, Minn - The home of two famous black bears is just days away from possibly being awared a $100,000."

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Vote for the Bears Head Lake State Park and other parks in the Coca Cola Your Favorite Park contest....Our parks provide a healthy way to enjoy the outdoors! VOTE HERE!

Have Teddy Bear, Will Travel - Tonic

 "My wife has three stuffed animals, which, therefore, means I have three stuffed animals. It's admittedly something I've had to get used to, but as my wife points out, at least she only has three. Point taken." 


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Group wants SC bear hunters to call off their dogs

"A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as dogs run and jump at it, a training method called bear baying that for now is allowed in South Carolina, and only in South Carolina."

Read more: The Associated Press: Group wants SC bear hunters to call off their dogs:


Support Bear Head Lake State Park win a $100,000 grant from Coca Cola! VOTE HERE!

Woman puts choking bear's life before her own

Comment: "I do not think there is an easy answer on whether this is right or wrong -- the person definitely put herself in harms way. I personally would not do it and am glad that it turned out well."

"Patricia Torres of Lake Tomahawk didn't really think twice when she awoke to find a bear choking to death in her yard. She risked her life dislodging a bone from the animal's throat in order to save it."

Woman puts choking bear's life before her own:

Jar stuck on cub's head illustrates Florida bear population on rise — and in our faces

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More on the black bear cub that got stuck in the pickle jar - a lesson for all to properly dispose of trash, recycle and remember that trash is a bear hazard.

"Georgia Wilcox was first to see the bear cub known as Jarhead. Georgia lives in a double-wide in the Ocala National Forest outside of Umatilla. In the morning, before the bad heat arrives, she relaxes on her deck and looks for critters."

Read more: Jar stuck on cub's head illustrates Florida bear population on rise — and in our faces - St. Petersburg Times:

Vote for Bear Head Lake State Park in Minnesota to win a $100,000 grant from Coca Cola. You can vote often and vote as many times as you want! VOTE HERE!

Orphaned bear cubs returned to wild - The Times-Tribune

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Comment: Oh we love a happy ending to a baby black bear story....and this time it was for six....

"STROUDSBURG - What it takes to lure six healthy, orphaned bear cubs from their den and drive them 100 miles to a new home: live-bear traps, tranquilizer darts, half a cantaloupe and two plates of pastries"

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Vote for Bear Head Lake State Park in N Minnesota to win $100,000 grant from Coca Cola. It is just south of the Boundary Water. They are in the lead but need everyone's vote. You can vote as often as you like and vote often.  Vote here.

Vet Hospital Gives Back to Injured Bear Cub~!

Recommended by Lily the Black Bear on Facebook and posted by the Totonto Sun.

Kind animal lovers from Toronto Veterinary Emergency Hospital are footing the bill for surgery on an injured cub that was hit by a car! "Dizzy Lizzie is about to go under the knife and get a second chance at life."

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BBC News - 'Tame' bears guard Canadian marijuana farm

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BBC News - 'Tame' bears guard Canadian marijuana farm: "Police raiding a marijuana farm in western Canada were astonished to find black bears apparently guarding it."

Vote Free and Advocate: Vote for Bear Head State Park in Minnesota to win $100,000 grant from Coca Cola. All it takes is a click. Click this link now!

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YouTube: Paddling in Bear Head Lake ! What a relaxing setting!

Bear Head Lake State Prk can win $100,000 from Coca Cola....Please vote many times and vote often to help them win funds that will be used to make improvements to this beautiful recreational area and black bear habitat! Bear Head needs all the votes it can get to stay in the top spot!

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Black bear hunt a waste of money via the Daily Record

"The New Jersey black bear hunt is going to cost the state approximately $600,000."

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The Lilypals are now the Bear Heads and need your vote to secure a $100,000 grant from Coca Cola for Bear Head Lake State Park in Minnesota! Click here to vote for Bear Head Lake State Park!

Experts Have No Idea Why Grizzly Bears Rampaged Through Yellowstone Area Campground, Killing One | National Parks Traveler

"Wildlife experts have no explanation for why a grizzly sow and her three cubs rampaged through a campground outside Yellowstone National Park late last month"

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Vote for Bear Head State Park to win $100,000 to make improvements from Coca Cola....You will be so glad you did...Vote many times are you want and as often as you want!

Near Lake Tahoe There's a Bear So Tough, Bullets Bounce Off His Head - WSJ.com

"In hot pursuit of a notorious burglar along the shores of Lake Tahoe this year, Carl Lackey organized a night patrol to catch the perp. His tools included a fire extinguisher, pepper spray and two dogs that respond only to commands in Russian"

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The Bear Heads from the Lilypad and Lily the Black Bear on Facebook are trying to help the little Bear Head State Park in Ely, Minnesota win 100,000 from Coca Cola. Please help them stay in 1st place.. http://www.livepositively.com/en_us/americasparks/vote#/americasparks/vote

Bear Encosure at the NABC - Update 8/14/2010

"Sometime last evening Lily and Hope were separated again. We see this often with mothers and cubs in late summer. All cubs are getting pretty independent—and, with all Hope has been through this year, she tops the chart in independence. While Lily rested this morning, Hope foraged off on her own. People spotted Hope crossing a forest road a couple hundred yards away."

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Iowa nature center's black bear dies - chicagotribune.com

Sad news from the wildlife education world....

"HAZLETON, Iowa — A black bear that was a big part of a nature center in Buchanan County has died at the age of 27. The bear, named Tana, died Tuesday morning. She arrived at Fontana Park as a 5-month-old cub in 1983."


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The teddy bears have a picnic - Timberjay.com

"What started as an idea for an intimate gathering of 50 Lily the Bear fans at the North American Bear Center, blossomed in ways organizers didn’t at first envision."


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Raleigh Volunteering Experience at BSBCC – Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre

"Our Volunteering Experience at BSBCC – “we can’t wait for the day to come when the first bear gets released into the wild!”"

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Eh? Duluth nears weather record; Lily and Hope fans aim to help local park | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

Bear fans go to bat for Bear Head Lake State Park in Ely, MN

Yes, they are a little crazy, but you have to admit all those rabid fans of Lily and Hope, the famous Ely bears, are an online force to be reckoned with.
One of them stumbles on an online poll to win money for something they like and, next thing you know, something they like is $100,000 richer."

Read more: Eh? Duluth nears weather record; Lily and Hope fans aim to help local park Duluth News Tribune Duluth, Minnesota:

Ely's North American Bear Center

Via article Midwest Weekends

"At the North American Bear Center, visitors meet some big personalities. At the North American Bear Center, everyone loves Lucky. Everyone loves a teddy bear, especially one called Ted.
He's likely the world's largest black bear, at 850 pounds, but he doesn't throw his weight around.
When his fellow bear Honey doesn't want to play, which is often, he merely whines, 'like a foghorn,'' says curator Donna Phelan. And when he wants to make friends, which is all the time, he makes a 'wonderful amiable sound, an umph-umph-umph.''"

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Killer grizzly's cubs settling into Billings zoo

: "BILLINGS - Three grizzly cubs that were removed from the wild after their mother mauled three campers appear to be warming up to their new home in a Montana zoo."

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Witness Report of Grizzly Attack in Yellowstone: "She Was Hunting Us~!

"COOKE CITY - One of the survivors of a deadly grizzly bear attack said Thursday she realized her only hope was to play dead after feeling the bear's jaw clamp onto her arm in the middle of the night"

Read more: Fatal Yellowstone-area grizzly mauling: 'She was hunting us':

Fatal grizzly attack: Wildlife officers investigate baiting near campground

"BILLINGS - State wildlife officials investigating a fatal grizzly bear attack outside Yellowstone National Park are looking into allegations that a photographer might have been baiting wildlife in the area"

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The NJ Bear Hunt is Not About Bear Management - But Lack of Funding for Education~!

via Yahoo.com. Recommended by fan of Lily the Black Bear on FB

"'Education, nonlethal bear management programs and methods for dealing with garbage do not exist in the plan because funding has been eliminated,' Tittel said. 'In addition, the state does not have enough conservation officers to manage black bears. This is only about eliminating black bears, not actually managing the population.'"

Read more: As NYC area spreads, so do bears; NJ hunt approved - Yahoo! News:

Bear shooed from country club kitchen

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"How else to explain why a mature black bear tore through a screen door to get into the kitchen at the Wolf Laurel Country Club last month?"

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Black Bear Sighted On 'Real Housewife Of New Jersey' Caroline Manzo's Front Yard In Frankline Lakes, NJ - baltimoresun.com

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"FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. (WPIX) — New Jersey residents have been plagued with sightings of rogue bears in recent days, and the latest sighting on Tuesday was on the front lawn of one of the stars of the 'Real Housewives of New Jersey.'

Caroline Manzo, who lives in Franklin Lakes, tweeted at around 7:40 a.m., 'There is the biggest f***ing bear in the world in my front yard. TERRIFIED.'

According to Manzo's son 21-year-old Christopher, it seems like the adult bear prefers to live in the lap of luxury. He tweeted minutes after his mother, 'Hellloooo bear in front yard' and 'For those of u who ask, a bear doesn't poop in the woods...it prefers my front yard"

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Shops HEIRS Bears!

Anchorage police: Please don't feed -- or Tase -- the bears -

"It's official: the Anchorage Police Department does not recommend zapping bears with Tasers, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The advice comes after an off-duty police officer recently popped a black bear that had wandered into his
back yard to rummage through his fish fryer."

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Shops HEIRS Bears!

New Jersey: Commissioner Martin Approves New Bear Management Policy that Calls for Bear Hunt

"COMMISSIONER MARTIN APPROVES NEW BEAR MANAGEMENT POLICY
THAT CALLS FOR BEAR HUNT

(10/P72) TRENTON - Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin today approved a Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy, a common sense mix of bear management tools that would include the state’s first black bear hunt since 2005 to deal with an overpopulation of bears and problems they are causing, especially in northern parts of the State."

Read more: NJDEP - News Release 10/P72 - Commissioner Martin Approves New Bear Management Policy that Calls for Bear Hunt:

Should We Feed Wild Bears? : Discovery News

"Bear advocates and biologists show that 'diversionary feeding' can stop human-bear conflicts.

Done correctly, such feeding keeps bears wild and away of human zones.

The feeding could especially work in the autumn where there isn't enough food in the forest."

Should We Feed Wild Bears? : Discovery News:

Getting It Right: Correct Information on Yellowstone Bear Attack

"Yellowstone Bear Attack: A recent bear attack at the Soda Butte camp near Yellowstone National Park is a serious reminder that we are not the top of the food chain when in forested areas. .......

The expansion of human settlements, the increasing number of tourists and the less and less food sources are turning the wild animals, such as bears and wolves into highly territorial, extremely aggressive beasts."

Yellowstone Bear Attack: The Lessons You Should Learn News Provider:



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Paintball Course Closes Because the Paint Attracts Bears~!

In this case, don't blame the bears.....!

"A newly opened paintball course in Montana had to shut down after odor from disintegrated paintballs was luring possibly dangerous guests: bears. Big Sky Marketing Director Dax Schieffer says the resort tried to find an environmentally friendly paintball. But it turned out that the one selected contains a vegetable oil that can attract grizzly and black bears that commonly roam the region."

Paintball Course Attracts Unwanted Guests: Bears - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des Moines:


















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