Good Monday morning! From our friends at BearWise, it is time! In Appalachia Georgia, at any time Bear Sows that are pregnant will be going into den. Please secure your crawlspaces and other spaces that a Bear may use as a den. Next will be Sows with Cubs of the Years. Late December it will be the adult males and subadults.
Continue to secure your attractants! Three things that put Bears into torpor or hibernation:
1. Less ambient light, i.e. the daylight hours get shorter.
2. The ambient temperature is less, i.e. it gets colder.
3. The lack of NATURAL food. If you have human-provided food; garbage, birdfeeders, and wildlife feeders out during the winter, they will not go nighty-night.
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