BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 6, 2025
“Would you like to hold a bear cub?” asked Randy Cross, a biologist from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Randy had the stellar reputation of being the person who knew more about black bears than probably anybody in the country. I was thrilled to have been asked to go along with a group of 20 others on an outing led by Randy to learn about the bear population in our state.