Kilham, a well-known authority on black bears who lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, uses satellite tracking to monitor the movements of several bears in our region. Thanks to that orange collar, I knew that the sow was one of Ben Kilham’s research animals. Eventually a car on the road scared the bears, and they ran up the hill and back into the woods. There was my two-year-old son, precariously balanced on the back of a chair by the window, shrieking “BEAR” and occasionally, “SHOES” – his way of demanding to go outside. There were rushed attempts at photography, foiled by warped window glass. ![]() Inside our house, the scene was not nearly as calm. They appeared to take a methodical approach, working their way from one tree to the next. There the family feasted on piles of old apples lying in the grass. The sow paused to observe the house, then led her cubs up across our field and down into a small stand of apple trees beside the road. ![]() Last week, a black bear in a blaze orange collar showed up in our yard.
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