Bears Posts

The Singing Wilderness: Summer to Winter in the Northwoods

Mar 05, 2021 1 Comment

This video contains all the wildlife captured by a remote camera from July 21 to Jan. 17 on a rocky island in the middle of a large bog in Voyageurs National Park. The camera is located in the center of the Cranberry Bay Pack territory and the collared wolves in the video are Wolves V083 and V084, the breeding pair of the Cranberry Bay Pack.

The Voyageurs Wolf Project put together the video and titled it after Sigurd Olson’s book The Singing Wilderness, a collection of essays on the different seasons in the northwoods.

Cranberry Bay is on Rainy Lake, about 125 miles north of Duluth.


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Enjoying the Glorious Climb-it of Duluth

Dec 26, 2020 No Comments

Oh, those wacky puns. This postcards was mailed from Duluth 115 years ago today — Dec. 26, 1905. It arrived in Newark, N.J. three days later, and eventually at the home of Mr. L. Volland.

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Unexpectedly Delayed in Duluth

Dec 03, 2020 2 Comments

The date of the written message on this relic appears to be either Dec. 2 or 3, 1905. It is postmarked from Duluth on Dec. 5 and arrived in St. Paul the next day.

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Duluth You & Me: Bear Invasion

Sep 28, 2020 No Comments

Use the link below for a printable PDF for your drawing and coloring pleasure.
Duluth You & Me: Bear Invasion

Follow the Duluth You & Me subject tag to see additional pages. For background on the book see the original post on the topic.


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Bear with cheeseballs container stuck on head rescued

Jun 29, 2020 2 Comments

KARE-TV out of Minneapolis reports a family fishing on Marshmiller Lake near Bloomer, Wis. — about 100 miles south of Duluth — pulled “a cheesy ball container” off the head of a black bear swimming on the lake.

The rescue was captured on video. The raw footage is below.

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News and Current Affairs, Videos

Noodles the black bear visits Miller Hill Mall

May 07, 2020 2 Comments

Ryan Carlson, a security officer at Duluth’s Miller Hill Mall, shot this image of a black bear trying to pay a visit to the Noodles & Company restaurant at the mall’s main entrance around 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Katie Altrichter Kaz, the mall’s general manager, posted the image on Facebook and wrote that she’s named the bear Noodles and considers it the mall’s new mascot.


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Video: Bear swimming near Madeline Island

Aug 30, 2018 No Comments

Video by Tina Green.


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Bear cub sneaks into Duluth basement, trapped in laundry basket

May 08, 2018 No Comments

A black bear cub fell into a Duluth basement through a window. Homeowners Linda and Abdon Friend chased it around. Police officers trapped it in a laundry basket and set it free.

Jeff Wagner of WCCO-TV has the story.


Videos

Whatever happened to Frisky the Bear?

May 07, 2018 No Comments

Indianapolis Star — June 7, 1959

Anyone remember old Frisky, promoter of Duluth as the vital player in the new St. Lawrence Seaway?

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Rural Duluth man kills wolf with hammer, city very happy

Mar 19, 2018 No Comments

The above clipping is from The Times of San Mateo, Calif., Jan. 2, 1956.

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History

Undesirable customers in Duluth

Jun 28, 2017 8 Comments

This postcard hit the mail 110 years ago today, sent by Hazel Britts to Capt. Luther Haleto of Provincetown, Cape Cod, Mass. The card is hand-dated June 27 and postmarked June 28, 1907. The illustration shows a banker closing his doors to “undesirable customers,” two black bear.

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Bellyflop

Jul 26, 2016 2 Comments

Bellyflop

Shot by Dave Zbaracki in the Congdon neighborhood. (Via Facebook.)


Photos

“Hey, where is your lawn chair, and can you bring me a Hamms?”

Aug 14, 2015 2 Comments

Bear Standing on porch in Proctor

The Proctor Police Department received this picture today from the Proctor Journal of a bear standing on someone’s porch. “Be safe out there,” the PPD warns. “It’s that time of year when they are out forging around for food so they can hibernate this winter.”

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News and Current Affairs

Is this bear poop on my front lawn?

Jun 21, 2015 5 Comments

poop

These droppings were six feet from my front door this morning on North 42nd Avenue West in West Duluth.


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Apparently the mayor was too focused on sharks

May 06, 2015 No Comments
Photo by Ken Greshowak

Photo by Ken Greshowak

Last we heard, someone was dressed in a bear suit in front of City Hall, trying to coax this poor critter down from the tree.


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