Standing in the small open meadow, deep in the North Woods, a group of photographers and I were enjoying the early morning calmness. Sunlight streamed through the branches of black ash and quaking ...

Later on in summer, red raspberries ( a key fruit species for bears), choke cherries, scarlet elder berries, dogwood fruits and blackberries ripen. In September, American mountain-ash berries, black ...

The American black bear is the smallest of our ... she won’t have any young at all. Baby black bears are born in February while the mother is still in the winter den. At birth the baby bears ...

The American black bear (Ursus americanus ... and developed their baby teeth. For the next 18 months, they will remain under ...