{"id":691784,"date":"2026-06-08T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691784\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:26:11","slug":"black-bear-moving-through-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691784\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Moving Through Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The presence of a black bear has been reported in the Kohler Andrae Park area and it may be the same reported earlier in the Town of Saukville.\u00a0 Sightings began this past Thursday when a bear appeared in the back yard of a home just east of Ozaukee County Highway I north of Center Road.\u00a0 The large animal was heading to the north.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-974015\" class=\"size-full wp-image-974015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saukvillebear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"664\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-974015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Bear Sighted Near Saukville Last Thursday via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Then on Sunday evening a report was posted on facebook by a resident living just south of Kohler Andrae State Park, likely the same one spotted earlier to our south that was was moving north.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says that black bear sightings are becoming more common in southern Wisconsin.\u00a0 DNR officials advise that if you sight a bear, stay calm, make yourself look large, shout, clap or bang pots together, and never run from a bear.\u00a0 Any bear sightings can be reported through <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.dnr.wi.gov\/wildlifeobservation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The presence of a black bear has been reported in the Kohler Andrae Park area and it may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-691784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}