Found this. https://oodmag.com/grizzlies-in-ontario/
Be nice to see some on trail cameras. Be nice not to see one in person!
Be nice to see some on trail cameras. Be nice not to see one in person!
hunting white lake ontario and possible grizzly encounter anybody else see one
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im in 63A, about a 30-45 min drive away.
Family has been there almost 80 yrs.
We've had trail cameras up since they were commercially available.
Never seen any Bear besides a Black Bear. Now, some of those have been quite large specimens!
Could have been the way the sun hit its coat? Could have been rolling in dirt just before?
Family has been there almost 80 yrs.
We've had trail cameras up since they were commercially available.
Never seen any Bear besides a Black Bear. Now, some of those have been quite large specimens!
Could have been the way the sun hit its coat? Could have been rolling in dirt just before?
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I read that article. It fits with what friends who do a fly-in into Pickle(?) Lake told us when they came back last fall. The pilot over-flew a landing area on the lake and circled around before touching down. The guys were unloading gear when they swear a huge Bear the saw about 300yds down the shore was a Griz. They used binos to identify color,the huge back hump and a different shaped snout and head than a Blackie,. They spent the next four days with their heads on a swivel.
Hi Dogger1. Here is the link to the Arctic Science journal article that I think Ontario Out of Doors magazine article linked above is mentioning:
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2018-0013
The location of this barrenground grizzly occurrence was in Wapusk National Park in northern Manitoba, close to the northwestern edge of Ontario along Hudson Bay. This is roughly 1000 km northwest from White Lake in Ontario.
Its not impossible that a grizzly wandered far south close to Lake Superior, but ecologically is highly improbable. Habitat-wise the boreal forest in northern Ontario, and especially the mid to southern very thickly vegetated boreal forest north of Superior, is not suitable habitat for barrenground grizzlies. I suspect you saw a very very large black bear in one of the brown colour phases as others have mentioned. The largest black bears do overlap barrenground grizzlies in size.
Also the reference to Pickle Lake I think is quite far south inside the north-central boreal forest, and again unsuitable habitat, highly unlikely it was a grizzly.
The open tundra habitat of Ontario's Hudson Bay coast is similar to Manitoba's southeast HB coast at Wapusk, so its ecologically quite possible, and perhaps probable that we will see grizzlies along Ontario's HB coast one day. For a grizzly its an easy 200km jaunt from Wapusk into Ontario.
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2018-0013
The location of this barrenground grizzly occurrence was in Wapusk National Park in northern Manitoba, close to the northwestern edge of Ontario along Hudson Bay. This is roughly 1000 km northwest from White Lake in Ontario.
Its not impossible that a grizzly wandered far south close to Lake Superior, but ecologically is highly improbable. Habitat-wise the boreal forest in northern Ontario, and especially the mid to southern very thickly vegetated boreal forest north of Superior, is not suitable habitat for barrenground grizzlies. I suspect you saw a very very large black bear in one of the brown colour phases as others have mentioned. The largest black bears do overlap barrenground grizzlies in size.
Also the reference to Pickle Lake I think is quite far south inside the north-central boreal forest, and again unsuitable habitat, highly unlikely it was a grizzly.
The open tundra habitat of Ontario's Hudson Bay coast is similar to Manitoba's southeast HB coast at Wapusk, so its ecologically quite possible, and perhaps probable that we will see grizzlies along Ontario's HB coast one day. For a grizzly its an easy 200km jaunt from Wapusk into Ontario.
