The male cubs, now 16 months old and called yearlings, will disperse while female yearlings establish home ranges nearby. Mortality factors include hunting, being struck by vehicles, or being killed due to damage control or nuisance activity.
Natural diseases, predation or starvation are rare. Bears host ticks and internal parasites, and some become infected with mites that burrow into the skin and result in a condition called mange, which can be fatal. In the wild, a rare individual might live to 25 years.
Age can be determined by examining a tooth in cross-section under a microscope and counting annual growth rings similar to how trees are aged. In Pennsylvania, bears are found in large forested areas statewide. They currently occupy over three-quarters of the state, although sightings have been confirmed in every county.
Large urban centers and agricultural areas, such as the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, and parts of the western border, lack sufficient forest habitat and bears seen there mostly are transient. The total population currently is estimated to be 18, In the s, there were fewer than 5, in Pennsylvania. Because bear populations have the potential to further increase, which can result in more frequent human-bear conflicts, their numbers are managed using regulated hunting.
The length and timing of hunting seasons is set such that populations with greater human-bear conflicts are reduced or stabilized while areas with few conflicts are allowed to increase. Population trend and harvest levels are closely monitored annually. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. An Official Pennsylvania Government Website. Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Buy a License. Make a Purchase. Report a Harvest. Report a Violation. Hunting Digest. Sign up for emails. Page Content. In the Western states, a low density of prey forces bobcats to range wider. In Pennsylvania, bobcats thrive in a wide variety of habitats including forested mountains, swamps, and agricultural areas, and suburban woodlots. Obviously, bobcats will live in areas where they can find ample shelter and food. Bobcats seem to prosper in remote areas near clearcuts.
Studies have shown that local small mammal populations increase following clearcutting due to better food and cover conditions , and apparently bobcats respond to this increased prey supply.
Oak leaf roller and gypsy moth caterpillars, insect pests which kill timber, may also indirectly increase small mammal populations by opening up the forest canopy, thus stimulating forest regeneration, and providing downed woody vegetation. Public attitudes concerning predators and the management of the bobcat in Pennsylvania have changed dramatically during the last century.
More than 7, bobcats were killed for bounty from to ; the majority of these were reported during the s. A realization that bounties were ineffective for controlling predator populations resulted in the removal or reduction of bounties on many predators. The bounty was removed from bobcats in , but they remained unprotected and were widely persecuted until classified as a furbearer in This reclassification empowered the Pennsylvania Game Commission to set regulations to manage bobcat populations.
Bobcat populations have continued to expand throughout the Commonwealth since , and a limited number of bobcats are harvested by hunters and trappers under a highly conservative management program. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server.
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