Bear in Anchorage : Moose, too: This hospital has had moose invasions every couple years through the automatic doors: https://www.apnews.com/ac6bd1c4a7f5433ba3ed1a4b17dd90e1
Since Millinocket is surrounded by woods, bears are seen in town fairly often. A few years back, one of them triggered the automated doors at the Millinocket Hospital. The security cameras caught a picture of the bear looking into the waiting room before it ran back to the woods. The hospital is at the edge of town though, so they're more likely to prowl there than downtown, although they've been seen downtown too. Mostly though, they follow the now practically unused railroad tracks, where brush has grown up on both sides, a path that is also used by coyotes and fox. The tracks go past our backyard, but I haven't seen any bears there yet.
Older residents claim there have been bear sightings in town here in north Georgia in the past. Definitely some were seen in a little town 25 miles north of here, called Commerce. That's getting close to the Blue Ridge Mountains. I've always hoped to see one, but I don't think it's ever gonna happen now. The only wild bears I've ever seen were in Yellowstone Park.
I forgot to mention, there is one county here in Georgia, called Twiggs County, where there is a colony of wild black bears that got isolated over the years, because of developments gradually moving in on them from all sides. Last I heard there are about 150 wild bears in the county.
Here are the three little bears that were running around in Hendersonville NC last summer. I stopped in the middle of the street to watch them cross. They were so cute. I wondered where Mama was when all this gallivanting was going on.
The only bear we've seen, besides in a zoo, was coming down a mountain, by a highway, in Yellowstone National Park. It was a "teenage" size one, not a full adult one. A Game Warden had stopped by the side of the highway and put on his emergency lights, to watch and make sure traffic didn't hit the bear if it crossed the highway. It didn't come out on the highway, just turned around and went back up the mountain.
My baby sister who lives in Sparta NJ sees them often in her backyard. Ive even posted pics on here once while I ws visiting her I saw a mama bear and her 3 cubs by my nieces swing set. They live on a lake and on 13 acres ....a lot of it is wooded. Think it’s called Mohawk lake.
Forgot to add that they can’t put their garbage out until the last minute because bears go thru it. I think they are black bears and the kind that really don’t kill humans unless provoked. There was one incident though a few years ago in that area where I think a teen was killed by one....but that’s been the only death....I think.