My understanding is that black bears are growing in numbers in Wisconsin, and have even been seen in Door County as well as west of Madison, where one was hit by a car a few years back. Fortunately, there are no Grizzlies around the state. The only time I saw a black bear in the wild was at a town dump near Conover, just north of Eagle River when two young bears were frolicing around. Making noise usually will scare them off, but a bear was once known to have reacted to noise made by a teenage girl, hunting in a tree stand up in northeastern Wisconsin, and climbed up the stand and attacked her. In other words, they can be somewhat unpredictable at times.
