Yep, bears are here and we will only see more and more. Wife's neighbor works for DEC and he said they already trapped more nuisance bears than last year. Also, people are calling in about bears in the woods like they just saw bigfoot. Bears are here, it's a fact.
I reside in Cortland and saw 2 bears last year south of Cortland in Richford. Is ittime to think about a season?

Had one come by at about 40 yards while turkey hunting in Vestal this year. One just got hit by a car off of 434 about ten days ago,too.

Not sure about Central Ny, but here in the southern tier we are being over run by them.I have pics of four different bear on our 320 acre parcel. Five years ago we were lucky if we saw just one.

can you hunt them in nj

Norwich Bear about 3 minutes out of downtown.

Billy

Backtension, that's a cool picture. I heard of a picture floating around that was taken in Smyrna of a bear and 3 cubs. I am still trying to track it down.

there was a bear running around my property a few months ago...i hope he plans on sticking around until season starts

Was the bear in the photo taken in the Catskill region? If she was in milk, I would find it hard to believe that the young ones were far away from her. In the Catskills you are not allowed to shoot a bear out of a group of bears from what I understand.

VACLAV, where in Upstate are you?

VT I also heard of the one's you mentoined, mom & 3 cubs but haven't seen anything. I work with a guy from Guilford who had one run through his yard a few days after this one.
Steve this pic was taken in 7M no bear hunting here, yet.