It means bear cub or small bear in Ojibwe. And I spelled it wrong the first time; now edited.

Do bears eat rabbits? It could solve that problem in a jiffy, if the foxes already haven't.

I used to live on the point - 6th house after the bridge. The year before I moved in (maybe '95, '96?), there was a black bear & cub hanging out on the tree in the back yard. For some reason I remember a DNT article about it (Paul?).

I like seeing Ojibwe on PDD.  Maybe we need a little language glossary post to link back to, you know, for northcountry languages and slang.  

I'm pretty sure I saw a wild dog coming back from the cities on I-35, near Sandstone.  It looked like a fox but the coloring was hard to see in my headlights, plus it would've been a huge fox, so then I thought wolf, but it was too scraggly for that, plus the tail seemed wrong, so maybe a coyote?  A feral house dog? It was gone in an instant, leaping across the freeway a quarter mile or so in front of me and then it was gone.  

As for Maria's Makoons, I'm wondering if the ice would've been stable enough for it to cross in March or whenever they wake up?  If there's a big bear den on Wisconsin Point, then why not on Park Point?  And it's true the rabbits do seem to be coming into line, what about Lisa's idea about a resident yearling? I'm asking.

Anyone taking odds on when DPD will shoot this one? 

I recall seeing my neighbors field-dressing a bear in the street by my apartment that had been shot in front of Fitgers maybe eight years ago. Not sure how they ended up with it, other than general hillbillyness. Also not sure that tossing the offal into the storm sewer was an appropriate decision, but that didn't stop them.

Oh my gosh he's back! I live on 32nd and a few months ago I swore I saw a bear go across my yard. I called the police to make sure his mother wasn't around to hurt anyone. Haven't seen him in a while. Such a cute thing.

Every creature needs a name...

"Somebody seen him hangin' around ... 'Dylan-the-Bear' in the long black coat ..." in respect to Dylan's 70th birthday.

This bear looks like a young yearling with a distinctive white spot on his chest, and yes there often are bears found on the Point. Not too many years ago Mama Bear and two cubs fed on the berries of the neighbor's Mountain Ash tree and the cubs 'played' on our deck and tree stands.

It took a whole weekend to tranquilize and cage  the bears...no tranquilizer guns in the immediate area; no stun guns yet in use I suppose ... and the bears had a ball.

The DNR's attempt to cage the bear is a long story about DNR's not too expert wild animal control and too long to tell,here ... yes it was a circus indeed!

Now chalk that up, right? ... it's Dylan the Bear, from here ... cheers.

New to this site, Caro found this website through a friend.
We have seen several bears down here.
We saw a fairly Large Black Bear 2 falls ago eating apples from our little Apple tree in the front yard here at 740 S Lake. THEN YESTERDAY (8 June) we saw a yearling walking up our back porch right next to the window where we watched him. Then climb over the fence into the neighbors yard we got some (grainy big foot quality)photos that Caro will try and upload "He" (for lack of going up and taking a closer look) looks really healthy and active Super fun to see him yesterday.  Now if I can just see lake monster or bigfoot my bucket list will be complete.