Posted: 05.21.2010

State wildlife officials say people
are seeing bears all over southwestern Wisconsin.

Since the end of March, sightings have included a sow with two
cubs in Sauk County; a single bear in the Town of Clyde in Iowa
County; a young boar hit and killed by a vehicle on Interstate 39
north of Portage in Columbia County; several reports of bear in
Crawford County and several reports of bears at bird feeders in
western Columbia County.

Department of Natural Resources officials say sightings usually
increase in May and June when young male bears are forced out of
breeding habitat in northern Wisconsin so they move south looking for new
habitat.

Though most of the bears leave the area after the breeding season,
presumably to return north, many female bears with young
remain in the south throughout the summer.
 

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