The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it's receiving more calls reporting black bears in Lower Michigan. These ...

Despite their name, black bears can be blue-gray or blue-black, brown, cinnamon, or even (very rarely) white. Solitary animals, black bears roam large territories, though they do not protect them ...

The wild American black bear continues to expand its range further south into Lower Michigan, the DNR reports.

The accompanying images show a coyote that I photographed last May as I stood alongside a road with dozens of others observing a cinnamon black bear with two cubs. Photo: ©Pete Thomas The bears ...