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Yellowstone Park Three Bears Wildlife Graphic Hoodie
Great hiking hoodie delivering a UPF-50 Sun Protection on the trail, town or river.
Help support the Black Bears of Yellowstone Park by Purchasing a Black Bear Graphic Hoodie.
Yellowstone Park Black Bears
Between three to four thousand Yellowstone Park black bears lived on the Yellowstone plateau when the park was created in 1872. With populations in decline due to habitat loss and hunting as the US Army struggled to stop poaching and illegal hunting within park boundaries. By the sixties populations dipped below a thousand. Populations keep declining till the seventies when Yellowstone Park instituted a black bear recovery program. Yellowstone Park sustains a healthy population of six – seven hundred Yellowstone Park black bears.
Yellowstone Park Black Bears are Omnivores
Yellowstone Black Bears live on roots, insects, berries, insects, nuts and other small animals. Yellowstone Park Black Bears scavenge for other dead and rotting animals such as winter kill and road kill. Please keep your trash and food locked up, its bad for Black Bears.
Yellowstone Park Black Bear Cubs
Yellowstone Black bears are non-communal and only gather to mate. Gestation for a black bear is seven months with up to three black bear cubs being born. Black bear twins are more common than triplets, with twins being born during the abundant food cycles commonly. Black bear cubs weight a pound at birth and re blind. Black bear cubs stay with mom for eighteen to twenty four months, learning how to live on its own in the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone Park Black Bears Precautions
Items on the trail that are a must. Bear Spray and making noise going down the trail. Don’t run from a bear! When camping use bear proof canisters or containers. Tell others where you are going and don’t hike alone.
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