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Article: Pennsylvania Game Commission Offers Advice on How to Avoid `Bear Necessities'; Agency's Nuisance Black Bear Committee to Present Report; Oldest Known Black Bear Dies of Natural Causes in Pike County.
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- September 26, 2001
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ --
With the arrival of fall, many Pennsylvanians will be spending increasing amounts of time outdoors, but this also is one of the times of year when black bears become more active, setting the stage for an increase in bear sightings or encounters.
With bears on the move, Mark Ternent, Pennsylvania Game Commission's black bear biologist, today offered suggestions on how to reduce the likelihood that your property will attract bruins and how to best react when a bear is encountered.
"Now that bears occupy a large part of the state, bear sightings are common during this time of year as bears attempt to ...