Been waiting to see an Ohio Bear in person for awhile. Was coming home down 183 the other day and saw something unusually dark and sized about 20 yards off the road in a scrub field. Looked at my girlfriend and said "was that a bear!" She said completely unenthusiastically "looked like one". She wouldn't let me turn around because she had to pee. Sure enough it was in the paper the next day Bear in Atwatet. Very cool!

 

I was really surprised how big this bear was, probably 4+ feet at the shoulders when on all fours and 6 feet when standing I would guess. This was my first bear sighting.

 

Yeah that bear there is pretty darn big, I have seen quite a few close up in Canada

 

Yeah I noticed. You got a big bear there. Our Atwater bear was smaller but I was still like a kid at Christmas.

 

It's a nice one for sure.
I was Backpacking down in the wayne National forest a few years ago and we kicked up a bear.

 

Neat seeing that in my hometown, doesn't surprise me at all though. Still a lot of rural area around there for them to hide in!

 

I’ve seen a cub up in a tree on the Cuyahoga in Portage county. There are more bears around than people realize. It’s pretty telling that most park districts around here have bear-proof dumpsters!

 

Most aren't residents. They are mostly from PA. Its crazy the territory they roam though. Ones that show up in Bedford reservation year to year have ben tagged and tracked and they come from the Appalachian region and roam all around north and down to south ohio in the span of 3 months covering thousands of miles and go back to the mountains for hibernation. Pretty neet seeing the gps

 

There was a Wild Ohio article showing a collared bear’s travels, and yeah it’s staggering!

BTW the 5 or 10 bucks it takes to subscribe to Wild Ohio is worth it!

 

well on the bear subject Bear with me (see slipped that one in) They are on the endangered list in Ohio and what I'm afraid of is some child getting to close or anyone for that matter very dangerous some of those kids are mean as Hell I couldn't bear to think what would happen to the poor bear very dangerous especially if the bear would try to take my stringer of Crappie I need a new rug which has no Bearing on this reply Of course a rug has no Bearing it's a rug LOL I hope some reader's of this reply will get a smile or a laugh

 

I've bow hunted bears several times in Canada and have seen ALOT of them in the north woods but I can't wait until I see my first bear in Ohio..