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After not seeing many bear's all summer, this last week I've seen 6 different one's and one dead cub on Rte. 23 the other night.... This morning comming to work I almost hit one.... He came ever so close to becomming history.... Guess I'll see a few more next week when bow season open's up in Zone 3....

You can have them all I hate them We have to many in Ringwood

it's getting to be UNBEARABLE This year I have just given up trying to count how many different ones there are and how many I have encountered. They are like squirrels now, if you stand in the woods 20 minutes they come out.

My trail cam was in the woods for 3 days and had 124 bear pictures on it

The Bear Population is OUT OF CONTROL!!!!!!!!

Thank you Corswine

You guys be careful when you get out to hunt. They'll have to re-instate the bear hunt next year, IMO, but in the meantime they'll be roaming. When are they supposed to hibernate?

kmtpr wrote:You guys be careful when you get out to hunt. They'll have to re-instate the bear hunt next year, IMO, but in the meantime they'll be roaming. When are they supposed to hibernate?

Kay... All bear's do not hibernate in New Jersey.... You can go for a walk in the Newark Watershed or any where else in January and see bear track's.... However the pregnant females are usually fast asleep by Mid-November.... That's why the Pa. bear season is held the week before Thanksgiving.... This way bear's are protected for the future.... A good rule of thumb for hibernation is.......... When food source's in the wild start to dwindle and a bear use's up more energy searching out food than it get's from what he is finding their body function's start to slow down thus inducing hibernation.... Do they have a set den site ???? NO.... They will den in a log, under a brush pile, under someones deck....

35Whelan wrote:

kmtpr wrote:You guys be careful when you get out to hunt. They'll have to re-instate the bear hunt next year, IMO, but in the meantime they'll be roaming. When are they supposed to hibernate?

Kay... All bear's do not hibernate in New Jersey.... You can go for a walk in the Newark Watershed or any where else in January and see bear track's.... However the pregnant females are usually fast asleep by Mid-November.... That's why the Pa. bear season is held the week before Thanksgiving.... This way bear's are protected for the future.... A good rule of thumb for hibernation is.......... When food source's in the wild start to dwindle and a bear use's up more energy searching out food than it get's from what he is finding their body function's start to slow down thus inducing hibernation.... Do they have a set den site ???? NO.... They will den in a log, under a brush pile, under someones deck....

Rich, thanks for the info. I didn't know that, just thought hibernation was a shorter period. They can be under someone's deck? Boy, that's way too close!! I never really thought about where they would/could go.

Pepper Spray and My 9mm should protect me (Private land)

What do you all mean, NJF&G say there is no bears in Jersey.... Y'all need to join the bear group They know the truth... Those cute and cuddly bears will love you to death... So please don't shot the bears....LOL


Be safe My Friends in the Bear woods this season... I hope Jersey does get another bear season soon before someone gets killed by one.

kmtpr wrote:

35Whelan wrote:

kmtpr wrote:You guys be careful when you get out to hunt. They'll have to re-instate the bear hunt next year, IMO, but in the meantime they'll be roaming. When are they supposed to hibernate?

Kay... All bear's do not hibernate in New Jersey.... You can go for a walk in the Newark Watershed or any where else in January and see bear track's.... However the pregnant females are usually fast asleep by Mid-November.... That's why the Pa. bear season is held the week before Thanksgiving.... This way bear's are protected for the future.... A good rule of thumb for hibernation is.......... When food source's in the wild start to dwindle and a bear use's up more energy searching out food than it get's from what he is finding their body function's start to slow down thus inducing hibernation.... Do they have a set den site ???? NO.... They will den in a log, under a brush pile, under someones deck....

Rich, thanks for the info. I didn't know that, just thought hibernation was a shorter period. They can be under someone's deck? Boy, that's way too close!! I never really thought about where they would/could go.

K, there was a 500 + bear in Lake Stockholm (Sussex Cty) that was hibernating under someone's deck this past year. It was tranquilized and relocated to Sparta Mtn WMA.