Estuaries and rocky beaches are "guarded" by brown and black bears, gray wolves and cougars.
Rather than attempting to fence out the wildlife (including bobcats and black bears) from this rugged Eden, they have, Jurassic Park-style, fenced themselves in.
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In addition to black bears, the region is home to red cockaded woodpeckers, the Florida scrub jay, sandhill cranes, Florida grasshopper sparrows and the enormous crested caracara.
And such programs do exist for other species, Derocher said, including California condors, black bears in Washington state and brown bears in Eastern Europe.
Next came cabin construction and in 1925, a golf course that is still rated among Canada's best (watch out for black bears and ravens, who sometimes swipe balls).
Concerned by threats to human safety, residents and wildlife rangers have shot more than a dozen bears, some of them black bears but most of them the more dangerous grizzlies.
Authorities, who did not have access to tranquilizer guns, killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight female lions, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers.
"The water that we drink every day has been around for millions of years and circulated through who knows what -- dinosaurs, black bears and panthers, " said David Czamanske of the Sierra Club.
Authorities, who did not have access to tranquilizer guns, killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight female lions, one baboon, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers.
The 400, 000-acre Ocala National Forest is a tangle of springs, sand-pine scrub and subtropical forest that is home to raccoons, flying squirrels, otters and black bears, as well as many species of bird.
Asiatic black bears are kept for bile farming in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia, and their bile, which is collected via repeated needle puncture of the gallbladder, is then used in traditional Asian medicines.
He has rafted rivers in Yakutsk, dodged grizzly bears and black flies around Great Slave Lake (his record for fly bites is two hundred in a single night), and scouted rock formations on the Skeleton Coast, sometimes hiking more than twenty miles a day.
Mr Pizzi was asked to operate on the black bear by the charity, Free the Bears.
Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some small, untidy evergreens, rolled up like sleepy bears.
It's the WGR614, and it bears the same metallic silver casing of many other Netgear products, but there's also a conspicuous black antenna rising from the back.
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