Finding a suitable winter den can determine whether a bear survives months of cold, deep snow, and food scarcity. For pregnant females and mothers with cubs, the choice matters even more, since the ...

State wildlife biologists visited the den of a female black bear last week to check her health and see whether she had given birth to cubs this season.

When a bear pokes its head outside a den in early spring, it takes very little to coax it back into hibernation. Colorado black bears typically do not emerge until snow melts and food becomes visible ...

A few days before Christmas, Jared Keeling crawled into a bear’s den. The den was under an abandoned house near Hunters, Washington, in Stevens County. Neighbors had reported seeing a black bear ...