Mark Ternent
Mark Ternent
aware bears habits learning living responsibility rural suburban
Learning about bears and being aware of their habits is a responsibility that comes with living in rural and suburban Pennsylvania or recreating in the outdoors.
bears check equally examined hunting male older past stations weigh
Over the past 25 years, only sixty-three 15-year-old or older male bears have been examined at check stations during the hunting seasons. Equally interesting is that Seaman's bear outweighs most 15-year-old male bears, which?typically weigh between 400 and 600 pounds.
bear exceed figure harvest hunters record state time
Any time Pennsylvania hunters exceed the state record bear harvest by 25 percent, you have to figure they had some things working in their favor. To place things in perspective, the statewide bear harvest in 1969 was 295.