Hello, and welcome to IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS, collection of news items by, on and about everyone's favorite charismatic mega-fauna, the bear. Many of you have been waiting many weeks / months for this, the first volume of the news letter. Well, kind readers: THE WAIT. IS. OVER. 

Each and every volume, you'll receive a collection of stories about bears, a brief encyclopedic entry about a bear of note (complete with a picture of said noble specimen) and a few outside links worth your time. 

Have a bear story you're longing to tell / share with your fellow bear bunch brigadiers? Send a reply to this address, and share the bear stories you know and love. And now, without further ado, TO THE BEARS.
 

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In Canada, Bears at Doors

On Golf Courses, Bears Have Fun

On New Jersey Turnpike, Bears Kill While Hitchhiking 

Debatable Bears Have Debatable Gymnastic Routines
 

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brown bear ((Ursus arctos), shaggy-haired bear (family Ursidae) native to Europe, Asia, and northwestern North America. More than 80 forms of the brown bear have been described; they are treated as several subspecies of Ursus arctos. North American brown bears are traditionally called grizzlies.

food: berries, plant roots and shoots, small mammals, fish, calves of many hoofed animals, and carrion

population: extremely large geographic distribution, and worldwide population totals more than 200,000


(via Encyclopedia Britannica Online)

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Zeus, As Modern (Jerk) Bro

Magic City Is Magic

Walking In The Sha-La-La Land

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Escape From This Wartime Prison
 

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