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Photos: Bear research in northwestern Minnesota

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Hiking out to bear dens
Researchers, university students and other interested persons begin a roughly 1-mile hike into the woods to check on a female bear and her cubs on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in northwest Minnesota. The outing is part of an ongoing research project to assess the movement and food preferences of black bears.
MPR Photo/Ann Arbor Miller

Minnesota black bears are on the move in northwest Minnesota. Bears are expanding their range out of forested areas, into farmland. Researchers are trying to learn more about how and why these bears are adapting to a new habitat where bears traditionally did not live.

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Returning to the den
The feet of several researchers surround a female black bear shortly before she and her two cubs are returned to their den in northwest Minnesota.
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Hiking out to bear dens
Researchers, university students and other interested persons begin a roughly 1-mile hike into the woods to check on a female bear and her cubs on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in northwest Minnesota. The outing is part of an ongoing research project to assess the movement and food preferences of black bears.
MPR Photo/Ann Arbor Miller
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Bear research biologist Karen Noyce
Bear research biologist Karen Noyce laughs with colleagues on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The black cloth behind Noyce covers the opening to a bear den where a female and two cubs are spending the winter. By her own estimate, Noyce has entered hundreds and hundreds of bear dens.
MPR Photo/Ann Arbor Miller