DULUTH, Minn. — Readers might remember the bear we wrote about in December, a big bruin that was eating his (or her?) way across the city's Congdon neighborhood until he finally decided to take his winter nap under Jeanette Anderson's front yard.
The Congdon bear was unusually late to go to sleep last fall, and he was early to rise as well, waking up and leaving the weekend of March 19-20. It seems he made it through the winter just fine. Anderson noted the bear seems to be coming back to spend some days underground between nightly food runs in the neighborhood.
More Northland bears are rising from their partial slumber (hibernation isn't really sleep) and will be coming out of their dens hungry. The Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources remind people who live in bear country — essentially all of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Duluth and Superior — not to leave any potential food sources out for bears to eat.
