Bear wanders through Beeton
AWARE News Network
A yearling bear was photographed wandering through Beeton June 13 2015. Recently, after a young bear was shot in Newmarket, naturalist Bob Bowles had the following comment in his Orillia Packet & Times column.
‘Young black bears that were born in winter dens in January and February 2014 and nursed by their mother until August or September and spending the winter of 2014-15 with her now are being left on their own. The female mates this month and with delayed implantation will implant her egg this November or December if she is healthy and fat enough and will give birth in January or February. Females give birth every two years.
‘The young bears on their own for the first time in their 16 months of life sometimes wander into residential areas looking for food. They were once live-trapped by Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry staff and safely removed from residential areas but, in many cases, are now being shot dead by police. If we would only back off and give these young bears some room for escape, as they do in more northern Ontario towns, there would be no reason to shoot them.’
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