Black Bear In The Wallow

Wildlife conservation officers Kropa and Johnson captured this video on a trail camera in the Pa. DCNR Delaware State Forest.
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Black Bear Wallow- Part 2
Wildlife conservation officers Kropa and Johnson captured this video on a trail camera in the Pa. DCNR Delaware State Forest.Share this with friends who enjoy Pennsylvania wildlife.
Posted by Pennsylvania Game Commission on Wednesday, September 9, 2015

How To Skin A Bear In The Field Video

How To Skin A Bear In The Field

How to Skin a Bear
Got a bear tag this fall? Here's how to skin a bruin while you're still in the woods:
Posted by Outdoor Life on Saturday, August 29, 2015

PETA reprimands teen victim of bear attack in Central Pennsylvania\ Fox News

  18-year-old Pennsylvania teen named Camille Marie Bomboy was attacked by a black bear while out deer hunting with her step-father and a large hunting party. At some point during the hunt, a mother bear attacked Camille’s shoulder and she was saved by her step-father shooting at the bear and scaring it off.

Camille is recovering after almost losing an ear and sustaining major injuries from bites to her arm, but has said that she plans to continue to hunt in spite of the incident. In their traditional fashion, PETA saw this as an opportunity to reach out to the teen, wishing her a quick recovery while also urging her to think hard about her decision to hunt.

The letter, which was obtained by The media, can be read in full below:

December 13, 2013

Dear Ms. Bomboy,

 I am writing on behalf of PETA and our more than 3 million members and supporters, including thousands across Pennsylvania, to send our best wishes for your speedy recovery and ask you to take a few moments to reflect on this incident. This seems to be a good opportunity to put yourself in the place of the individuals you and the rest of your hunting party were trying to kill. As terrifying as it must have been to be attacked by a bear, please consider the frightening and painful experiences that hunters set out to impose upon animals. There used to be a bumper sticker that read, “I support the right to arm bears!” That was a joke, but in all seriousness, it would be a blessing if you were to abandon hunting and decide to live and let live.

As this mother bear demonstrated, animals form intense bonds with their young, just as we do, and will go to great lengths to protect them, just as your stepfather did for you. Like us, animals value their lives and don’t want to be killed. And many animals endure prolonged, painful deaths when they’re injured by hunters but not killed outright, which I’m sure you know firsthand from being in the woods. A study of 80 radio-collared deer found that of the 22 deer who had been shot with “traditional archery equipment,” 11 were wounded but not recovered.

Now that you’ve experienced the horror of an attack—although this one was in self-defense—we hope you will choose to enjoy nature in only nonviolent ways. Thank you for your consideration.

Kind regards,

Alicia Woempner
; Special Projects Division Manager


18-year-old Pennsylvania teen named Camille Marie Bomboy was attacked by a black bear while out deer hunting with her step-father and a large hunting party. At some point during the hunt, a mother bear attacked Camille’s shoulder and she was saved by her step-father shooting at the bear and scaring it off.

Update On Bear Attack in Central Pennsylvania

A young hunter is recovering from injuries after she was attacked by a bear in Clinton County.
Kyle Courter said Monday afternoon started off as a normal hunting day for his family. He, his dad, stepsister Camille and a friend hunted for deer at their family farm near Lock Haven. When the group saw three bear cubs run by, Courter said things got scary.
“I heard sister screaming and I went running. By time I got there I heard a couple of gunshots,” Courter said. The black bear charged at Camille  and attacked her.

Pennsylvania Teen Attacked by Black Bear!

 PORTER TWP., CLINTON COUNTY - State Police said the PA Game Commission is investigating a black bear attack near Lock Haven.
According to troopers at the Lamar Barracks, 18-year-old Camille Bomboy, no address given, was hunting deer at a family farm Monday afternoon when she was charged by a large black bear. The farm is located in Mill Hall on Jacksonville Road.

They said she was "driving" deer when she saw 3 cubs. That's when she turned around and saw the large bear.
Police said Bomboy suffered multiple deep tissue bites to her arms and shoulders and a deep cut on her head. The teen's step-father was able to scare the bear off.

She was taken to Lock Haven Hospital then transferred to Geisinger Medical Center where she underwent surgery. No word on her condition.

Video Of 772-Pound Black Bear Harvested in Lackawanna County Pennsylvania

One hunter in Lackawanna County got his this week,  a black bear weighing almost 800 pounds.
“I couldn’t believe how big it was. It’s big,” Daniel Beavers of Covington Township said.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates the male black bear weighed 772 pounds.
So far it’s the largest bear taken in Pennsylvania this season, and it was shot near Daleville in Lackawanna County.
“I wasn’t even going to go hunting. First drive of the morning he just came right out to me and I shot him,” Beavers said.

How to score Deer & Bear for Big Game records

 Part one in a five-part video series: Bob D'Angelo, coordinator of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Big Game Records Program, explains how to score deer antlers and bear skulls.

Warning!!.......Land Posted By Big Black Bear!

While walking atop the Bald Eagle Mountain range in Central Pennsylvania last week, I came across some interesting Black Bear sign. The photo below is known as what us Hill Billy's call a "Barr Tree" or "Bear Tree". A dominant Black Bear will mark his territory by reaching as high as it can on a Pitch Pine Tree and mark the tree with it's claws and urinate on it, he also rubs his belly and ass on the tree to ward off other male Black Bears from entering it's Posted area, in other words a trespass sign for Bruin,s. I think the Black Bear chooses the Pitch Pine Tree over other tree's is that his fur and urine sticks to the pitch and further adds his scent to the tree for longer periods of time. I have also seen Barr Scratches on other tree's as well, Apple, Oak and My Dad's log cabin! 

 

By the height of this Barr Scratch, "over eight feet high", and the width of it's claw marks at 1/4 inch wide and the scratch's over 12 inches in length, I estimate the Bear to weigh roughly 450 to 475 pounds give or take?, it's most likely a "Hog Bear" as we mountain folk call them, a round, fat,  short legged Bear, compared to a "Dog Bear" a skinny lanky, long legged Bear. Your probably asking your self, how I know it's a Dog Bear?,  well I can smell him Pilgrim!, his scent has a strong pungent order associated with eating lots of Acorns, Grubs, Fish and Age, a sign of an Old Mountain Bear that prefers the mountain tops over garbage cans, that a Dog Bear cannot resist.

A Bear that perhaps has been trapped many times in it's youth and relocated to wilderness areas and is just fed up with being captured, or just an Old Wise Bear that has evaded modern man's weapons? nevertheless a true Grand Old Mountain Black Bear he is!, and a Bear that most hunter's would enjoy bagging this season if you know where his dark, deep hollow mountain lair is. 

Before I left the Barr Tree, I took some survival trinkets with me, a hand full of hard Pine Pitch with Black Bear Hair stuck to it for a true Mountain Mann Torch with essence of Barr Fur, a candle that you will not find in any store or potpourri boutique!, a flame Lady Liberty herself would be proud to hold on a long winters night. So get out and enjoy the woods while we all still can!, the Reaper's at our backs and life is short!.

Tuesday / Nov / 11 / 2013.