Bear Wise Hotline

The Ministry of Natural Resource’s bear wise hotline hasn’t received as many calls as last year.
After five months of operation this year, only 9,450 calls have been made to the toll-free line.
Spokesperson Yolanta Kowalski says the black bears natural food source, blueberries did pose a problem at the beginning of the season.
So far, the MNR has had to deal with over a thousand bear occurrences in the Northwest region.
The bear wise program wraps up at the end of November.