Bear in Central NY.
 

I heard a rumor that a full grown bear was spotted last Thursday in the middle of Nelson, near the intersection.

Anyone else hear this? I'd like to see one.

FH

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

Not too sure about that, but we've been seeing a lot of them in the Smyrna area and outside of Norwich.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

I've seen them in Mid-Oneida Cty....

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

A few sightings around here. I have not seen any.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

My Wife said she heard of one near the town of Westmoreland...but she's not sure.
I've yet to see any around here though.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

Haven't heard or seen anything in the madison county so far. I'm by colgate university and nothing yet.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

They are everywhere now, probably worsened by the fact that NJ is over crowded with them and they are moving north. I see their "scat" in the woods all the time. Never actually seen one though to tell you the truth, which is fine by me.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

NJ is overcrowded for sure. The bears that FH is talking about have come north via the southern tier of NY. I don't think he's getting Catskills/Adirondack residents where he is. I've confirmed from DEC Biologists that ranges are expanding about 1.5 miles north from the southern tier each year. Rochester had more than its fair share of bear ventures recently too, and the Cuse area is no different.

FH, most of them are 1.5 yr old males that are looking for new territory after being displaced by mama. Every once in a while, your area will get a
"passer-by" similar to what happens in Rochester. The DEC will frequently relocate problem bears, and collar them. Often, the bear, like other animals, will find their way back. Sometimes they take detours, etc.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

We've got quite a few around Broome County now. They've been showing up in downtown Binghamton and Endicott lately. Vestal is loaded with 'em. We assume they're coming from PA. The past 4-5 years now they've become a lot more visible.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

I live in the catskills and we've had quite a few bear problems. Walking into campsites stealing food, breaking into people's houses and stealing the fridge, stuff like that. Of course the idiots whose homes and campsites were raided weretrying to attract them by feeding them. When the food supply got cut off, they just came in and took what they wanted.

I personally responded to a call where a 300lb bear trashed a woman's car, crushing the roof, blowing out all of the windows, and ripping one of the doors around to get to a bag of dog food in the car. She was buying dog food and feeding a few bears each night. She liked to have her grandchildren watch them come and eat. This night she got home late and didn't feel like unloading the dog food. Yup, she was sorry.

This is a smaller mother bear (she was in milk) that my cousin took last season

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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?

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

can you hunt them in nj

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

Norwich Bear about 3 minutes out of downtown.

Billy

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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.

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

VACLAV, where in Upstate are you?

RE: Bear in Central NY.
 

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.