Southern Indiana has seen a massive Center Bear migration from Kentucky and they are slowly making their way into this blogs region and into the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Black bears are starting to associate people with food and see a lot of suburbanized land for great handouts. it is the southern part though tat has seen these Center Bear refugees migrate North after earlier in the year had seen the first Black bear in Indiana in more than a hundred and fifty years up North on the Michigan border.
Wildlife officials are tracking the Black bears movements and wondering why the shit they are coming North now into the state now as multiple sightings and video evidence is proving that the Black bear is now a regular part of the habitat in Southern Indiana apparently as of this year. They are knocking down bird houses all over the place and sooner or later will be pounding on the back door hoping for access to kitty's bowl or your refrigerator. 
The latest sighting comes roughly a year after a black bear wandered into northwest Indiana from Michigan. That bear was the first verified presence of a bear in Indiana in more than 140 years. After spending several weeks in Indiana, the bear returned to Michigan, where conservation officers euthanized it in April. Now its cousins are coming after swimming over the Ohio River and fleeing the over-crowding of the expanding Black bear population in this state Hunters are already lining up petitions and planning on hunts of this animal within a few years. Black bears will feel right at home in Indianapolis and this species willingness to live like a raccoon instead of a bear is what will make this animal successful in the Hoosier state.
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