Michigan black bears move south

Photos of a black bear in Clinton County from summer 2024 were recently found on remote trail cameras. PHOTO PROVIDED BY JEN OWEN
Photos of a black bear in Clinton County from summer 2024 were recently found on remote trail cameras. PHOTO PROVIDED BY JEN OWEN

LANSING

“ There’s bears here?”

That was a common response this spring to the first public display of photos of a black bear taken from trail cameras just a half-hour drive from downtown Lansing.

The bear was photographed over the course of two months in summer 2024 at Michigan State University’s Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center in southeast Clinton County.

Those photos, shown for the first time …