11/05/2026
BEAR FACTS PRIOR TO HIBERNATION!
For an animal that size, the black bear is mostly a vegetarian with a good memory. 🐻
Acorns, beechnuts, berries, grubs, the occasional fawn — and anything it found once and liked, because a bear remembers where the food was. It's shy by nature, quick to leave, and far more interested in a feeder than in a person.
It lives across more of the country than most people think: the Appalachians end to end, the North Woods, the Great Lakes, the Southern swamps, and suburbs that were farmland a generation ago.
In November it's eating for the whole winter. Up north it'll be denned by the end of the month, with cubs arriving in January. Down south, it may hardly den at all.
The one job in bear country: make sure none of what it's eating comes from the house.
