Spring bear visits.

[Kevin McCormack]

You're going to need a bigger gate!

[Timothy Salgado]

Back in the 1990s in November, I was black bear hunting in Promised Land State Park here in Pennsylvania. A nearby hunter shot a nice bear along the small power line we used to access the area. I helped him field dress the bear and drag him out to the hunter’s Subaru wagon. The bear filled most of the Subaru. The Game Commission folks weighed the bear and took their tooth sample and calculated the live weight of the bear at 502 pounds. The bear in your photos looks much heavier than the bear I helped that hunter with , particularly considering it’s coming out of hibernation. I’ll have to pull out the old newspaper article Tom Fegely wrote for the Morning Call newspaper about that bear and the opening day of the season that year.