I TOLD YOU...Have you ever seen a bear in Ohio?
A New Generation Of Black Bears Is Returning 🐻
Ohio had lost its black bears by the mid-1800s... but now they're making a comeback.
Black bears once lived throughout nearly all of Ohio. As settlers cleared millions of acres of forests for farms and towns, bears lost much of their habitat. At the same time, unregulated hunting and trapping dramatically reduced their numbers until they had virtually disappeared from the state by the mid-1800s.
Today, that story is changing.
This summer, at least three separate black bear sightings have been reported inside Mohican State Park. While that may sound like an isolated event, it's actually part of a much larger trend. Black bears have been slowly expanding back into Ohio for decades as forests have recovered and populations from neighboring states have naturally spread westward.
The map below shows confirmed black bear sightings since 1993. So far, bears have been confirmed in 62 of Ohio's 88 counties, with the strongest populations in the forested hills of eastern Ohio. Very few have ventured into the flat, farmland-dominated landscapes of northwest Ohio.
I know many locally travel to the Smoky’s to see bears and hike. I did not realize so many were back in Ohio too! ... See MoreSee Less

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