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Over the weekend two different people reported seeing a black bear in Dedham (hey, I live there!), a suburb bordering Boston's southern neighborhoods. Then it was seen in Needham, our slightly wealthier neighbor to the west. Just now, on the universal hub twitter feed it was reported that the black bear was seen on the Brookline/Newton line near ( Read more... )

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Black bear sighted in Concord, Mass.The link above takes you to a Boston Globe story (very short) about the bear sighting. "Since this Spring, there have been four bear sightings in Concord." Possibly the same bear, or family of bears, I suppose. Concord is about twenty miles out of Boston, but the article describes it as "Greater Boston ( Read more... )

That I can even consider the black bear (Ursus americanus) for an article in a publication about urban nature is somewhat astonishing. The bear is symbolic of the wilderness, climbing trees to raid beehives and slapping fish out of the water. A bear in the city is hopelessly out of place, too big to hide under a porch or in the sewer. Two times ( Read more... )