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When it comes to Lake Superior, you find bruins all around - and sometimes above - the region. Amateur photographer Donald Heintzeman captured an image of this mom and her triplets near Iron River, Wisconsin.

“They’d been going through my property,” he says. Then one morning he found that they’d taken refuge in the branches.

People here tend to be bullish about their bears, glad to see them, but wisely cautious. Black bears, bedded down for the winter now, make frequent appearances in most parts of the lake in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Ontario.


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