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Dennis Anderson: Mystery around bears reproduction is a reminder of their balancing act Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune
Minnesota over the years hasn t been quite sure what to do with its bears. Early settlers feared them or killed them for food, and from 1945 to 1965 the state paid $10 bounties to people who dispatched bruins that toppled garbage cans, broke into cabins or otherwise made nuisances of themselves.
Considered vermin, bears decades ago were sometimes gut-shot by Minnesota deer hunters who watched the animals run off to die in distant locations.
All of which began to change when the state declared the black bear a game animal and held its first hunting season for bruins in 1971. That designation polished the animal s image, set in motion its formal management and initiated world-class research by Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff in the agency s Grand Rapids office.
Minnesota over the years hasn t been quite sure what to do with its bears. Early settlers feared them or killed them for food, and from 1945 to 1965 the state paid $10 bounties to people who dispatched bruins that toppled garbage cans, broke into cabins or otherwise made nuisances of themselves.
Considered vermin, bears decades ago were sometimes gut-shot by Minnesota deer hunters who watched the animals run off to die in distant locations.
All of which began to change when the state declared the black bear a game animal and held its first hunting season for bruins in 1971. That designation polished the animal s image, set in motion its formal management and initiated world-class research by Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff in the agency s Grand Rapids office.