Bear Hunting in Wisconsin

• “MOTHER NATURE’S BEAR ESSENTIALS… Could key Space Flight, Medical Advances Too”
  2/20/2012 4:40:00 PM
  By Dick Ellis By his very nature, Professor Danny Riley, Ph.D. with the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is a skeptic.  Throughout his life he has been a questioner in search of more proof, and more answers.    One takes note of Riley’s cautious optimism, then, that...
• “MOTHER KNOWS BEST… Mother Bear, Mother Nature team for medical miracle”
  2/20/2012 3:20:00 PM
  By Dick Ellis Almost a mile off the nearest logging road west of Neillsville, DNR Bear Biologist Mike Gappa finishes the trek through the Clark County snow and leads two researchers to the sow’s shallow den burrowed out months before among a stand of immature aspen.  Pressed against the entrance Mother Bear is protecting her precious se...
• Craig Cichanofsky's 639 Pound Wisconsin Black Bear
  1/17/2012 9:30:00 PM
  by Dick Ellis Wisconsin bear hunter Craig Cichanofsky’s hopes began to fade like the tangled Bayfield County forest floor fast disappearing below his treestand. Cichanofsky had already held vigil for more than nine hours above the bait pile that had in recent weeks drawn in the monster bear known as Snaggle Tooth. But in these final min...