Adequate food resources are important for growth, reproduction, and building fat reserves for winter survival in their den. Adirondack black bears eat a wide variety of foods. Approximately 90 percent ...

The Whiteface Mountain ski resort is rolling with the weather swings that spring presents as it plans its various festivities ...

By mid-novemeber food resources are becoming scarce and the Adirondack black bears, now fattened for winter, begin to seek out a favorable den site. Feeding activity has nearly ceased and the bears' ...

Overall both agree that distance is is the best way to keep people and bears safe from each other. “That’s what we live in the Adirondacks, to be in and amongst the wildlife. But, we also need ...

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y., July 17. -- To be able to kill a bear is the ambition of every man who makes any pretentions as a hunter, but to get one is permitted only to a favored few. Lake Placid and ...

It also included pictures of some tiny and incredibly cute cubs. “Winter hasn’t finished just yet, which means bear den checks are still a thing,” the DNR team members said. “Here are ...