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Date Posted: 14:39:24 04/27/05 Wed
Author: Sarah
Subject: Part 2
In reply to: Sarah 's message, "All we need now is a trampoline..." on 05:41:49 04/27/05 Wed

Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr05/321820.asp
Black bear netted in Wauwatosa
By ANNYSA JOHNSON
anjohnson@journalsentinel.com
Posted: April 27, 2005
A male black bear was captured this morning after it was discovered prowling around a business at 114th St. and W. Burleigh in Wauwatosa.
Authorities were trying to determine how the 154-pound bear made its way to the commercial area near Highway 45 - it had not come from the Milwaukee County Zoo a few miles away - and whether it is the same bear sighted in Cedarburg earlier this week. There also have been sightings of a black bear recently near the Manitowoc-Sheboygan county line and in Calument County.
It was first confirmed sighting of a black bear in Milwaukee County in memory, said Jim McNelly, a supervisor with the state Department of Natural Resources.
"I spilled my coffee all over myself," said Neil Tomkowiak, who got a good look at the bear when she climbed up to the break room window at Schwaab Stamp & Seal, 11415 W. Burleigh.
Wauwatosa police were called to the scene around 6:20 a.m. and found the bear meandering across the grass between Schwaab and another business, where it took refuge under a parked semi trailer, said Capt. Jeff Sutter.
Police waited for a state DNR warden and a zoo veterinarian who captured the animal with a tranquilizer gun after it had made its way up a nearby tree. The bear was taken to the zoo and this afternoon was transported to be freed in the northern Wisconsin woods.
Last year, Wisconsin had 12,200 black bears, the DNR estimates. And because of increasing human activity in northern parts of the state, some bears are being pushed into rural areas in central Wisconsin, including Buffalo, Eau Claire and Jackson counties.
In 2003, the Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture received 1,370 bear complaints in Wisconsin and trapped and relocated 546 bears to more isolated areas.
Adult male black bears are between 4.5 and 6 feet long and weigh 250 to 500 pounds, the DNR says. The female bears weigh from 225 to 450 pounds and are about 4 to 4.5 feet long.
Black bears, for the most part, are timid, wary and loners by nature that eat just about anything, from fruits and berries to garbage. They most often are seen by people between mid-May and late September.

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