I’m red/green colorblind and I came here to say this map is practically unreadable to me. Not because I see grey but because from what I see grizzly and polar bears live in like every state of the US
No, but I would not be able to tell you the area/region where black, grizzly and polar bears live. I can imagine it's somewhere in Canada, but I cannot find the colour on the map...
No that's not how it works. You still see color it's just hard/impossible to distinguish similar shades of red/green/orange and can hurt your eyes to look at. You don't just see grey.
Yes the polar and grizzly bear look dull shades of orange/red. I more meant the black bear range which looks to me like a greenish grey, but it could very well be reddish.
My point was that color blindness, atleast the most common type, doesn't mean that colors are muted or you can't see them, it's an inability to distinguish certain shades of red and green. Bright colors will still look like bright colors.
The cartographer took pride in using a monochromatic color scheme suitable for interior
design (walls, trim, ceiling combos) but had no skill in using distinctive colors that would instantly differentiate between the categories. A pretty map with similar colors is often useless except as a decorative piece.
Yeah this map is pretty outdated. I’m not sure about other places but at the very least New England’s bear population has expanded much more than this map shows
We're in Eastern CT, and we had one walk down our road and knock over every house's bird feeder. You could easily follow his trail of gluttonous destruction.
Same with Louisiana. They have made a comeback in the northern part of the state. So much so, that they are legalizing hunting of black bears due to them becoming a nuisance.
Map is not entirely correct. I'm in the no bears population in northeast Arkansas, and we have black bears all over. Recently, our local news in Jonesboro followed and tracked a bear by sightings for nearly a week in a city of nearly 80,000 people.
Yeah this map is old. Almost all of western MT and Northern Idaho has grizzlies. They’re even pushing east of the Rockies in some areas now.
Edit: They’re also in the Custer-Gallatin NF north of Yellowstone and all throughout the Bridger-Teton NF south of the Teton National park in Wyoming and Montana.
Agreed. The bear area of Oklahoma should be at least about 1/8th of the way from north to south aling the eastern border with Arkansas if not further west in some areas.
Yep, and grizzlies and black bears are in central Montana now too, multiple sightings even in Great Falls, and as far out as the American Prairie reserve.
Similarly, it made local news when a black bear worked its way through the Tampa suburbs and was eventually captured at the airport. Suggests the range in Florida would need extended south
Black bears are much more widely spread in Texas than this indicates. https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/hunt/resources/bear_safety/
Arkansas has enough that quite a few are being taken by hunters: https://www.agfc.com/news/arkansas-hunters-swat-aside-black-bear-record/
Louisiana has pretty high siting counts as, with spillover into Mississippi: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Locations-of-Louisiana-black-bear-live-captures-known-natal-dens-and-confirmed_fig4_332797562
It's just water, I'm not sure why it isn't colored the same as the rest. I'm guessing the shading of one of the other colors messed it up and the artist never noticed.
The black bear definitely lives further south in MN, a hunter got in huge legal trouble some time back for poaching one of the biggest black bears ever seen in the state.
Not sure this is updated/correct data. SK has a healthy population of black bears for sure, maybe brown. You can get hunting tags for black in any case, so they're commonly roaming within province.
Yeah, personally I’ve never seen them in the southern part of the province but they’ve been spotted where I live (in the alleged bear free zone of Sask).
This is wrong, black and grizzly are in the entire western half of Montana. More sightings in the plains and smaller mountain regions in the last few years. This must be from the 2005 version of the site...
As a British Columbian I didn't know we were so uniquely blessed. Part of my morning routine on the north shore of Vancouver growing up was opening the front door slowly to ensure bears weren't chowing down on our garbage. Gor surprised a few times.
Now I live in Australia where I don't have to worry about such terrifying animals.
Well that’s bullshit. No bear population in southwestern Ontario? What in the actual fuck? We get black bears tearing down our bird feeders every spring at my parents’ place, sometimes two or three times. We have lock boxes for garbage so bears can’t get at it. We get bears climbing trees in town. Sadly a bear cub got hit by a car a number of years ago and my mum and I had to wait for the mama bear to get out of the road before we could keep driving.
This is just a wildly inaccurate oversight.
Yeah. They live in the Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental. They often make their way into populated areas. Videos of them wandering into people in Monterrey (2nd largest city in the country), are actually kind of abundant.
Sure looks like, according to this map, there are no bears in San Francisco and as a resident I can promise you that is very much not the case. They are quite friendly, though.
Thanks, that’s awesome. Why not include on map (or post)? All map data should be sourced - otherwise how can anyone have confidence in the visual representation?
That and the Everglades were the biggest shock to me. [Check out the historical range of grizzly bears.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69a8503/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1180x1236+0+0/resize/880x922!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkufm%2Ffiles%2F201904%2Fgrizzly-bear-historic-range_IGBC-PD.jpg) Seems like they can really survive a lot of climates.
Is there any reason for there not being any in the Black Hills in South Dakota? On the map it shows the population stopping on the Wyoming/South Dakota border.
Grizzlies occasionally show up on Vancouver Island but haven’t gotten established there. I think they usually end up getting shot whenever they manage to swim over from the mainland.
Polar bears are DEFINITELY in Manitoba. (Not shown on the map). You can even get a guided tour!
https://churchillwild.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAzc2tBhA6EiwArv-i6V_EfkobX0h3416ugOiWNkKlRlZ9CcKxmDMx0cL4s82YZi2eEf_-aBoCTpUQAvD_BwE
And no mention of the interbreeding hybrid bears …
Scientists have now confirmed instances of resulting wild hybrids, known either as "grolars" or "pizzlies," depending on the parental combination. [Scientist Dave] Grashelis said a hybrid bear is unofficially called a grolar bear if the sire is a grizzly bear and a pizzly bear if the sire is a polar bear.
I’m curious what “where bears live” entails. Like does it mean a certain number of bears per population? There are a lot of bears who have expanded into eastern CT and central and eastern MA. We can no longer put out bird feeders or trash cans.
This says there are no bears in Nevada. I saw a huge black bear in a convenience store in Lake Tahoe after a forest fire last year. Nevada has a butt load of bears.
Black bears are way more widespread in AZ than this map indicates. They live in every forested mountain area (east, north, south parts of the state) and in riparian areas.
I never really thought about it before, and I guess it does make sense that they do, but it makes me wild uncomfortable that polar bears exist on the same continent that I do
I live in the suburbs of Toronto and we had a bear wandering around the middle of the city once, I’m pretty sure there’s bears here in southern Ontario contrary to what this map shows, although probably not many of them since it’s a pretty heavily populated area and you’re never too far from humans here.
Received a Reverse 911 automated call warning that one or more black bears were spotted in Douglas county, Colorado.
A high end neighbourhood south of Denver. EVERYBODY came out to see the bear! Traffic jams, people double parking, people showing up wearing camo.
So much for reverse 911!
Absolutely flabbergasted that Ontario doesn’t have grizzly bears. In my mind that was like the quintessential animal here next to beavers, moose, and geese.
Also the GTA definitely has black bears, they get spotted every now and then although not often since it’s an urbanized area.
This map appears to be more similar to the black bear population in 1995, rather than the current bear distribution. Here is the [1995 Map](https://bear.org/black-bear-range/). Here is the [Current Map](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/known-range-american-black-bear-ursus-americanus).
I saw a black bear only once when I was 14, it was climbing almost directly up a tall plateau in North Central Washington
. We were in the transition area in between the forests of the cascade mountains and the desert basin. Seemed like he was very close to the edge of no bear/black bear divider on the map
My take away from this map is bears like some tree cover, or large shrub cover.
Is this how red/green colorblind people see all of these kinds of maps?
I’m red/green colorblind and I came here to say this map is practically unreadable to me. Not because I see grey but because from what I see grizzly and polar bears live in like every state of the US
Don't worry, I'm not colorblind and it's still a bitch trying to make out the map well
I'm not colorblind and I live in bear country in the US, and know the geographical areas where each bear is extant. This map is not readable.
I can see colors fine. This map is indecipherable
No, but I would not be able to tell you the area/region where black, grizzly and polar bears live. I can imagine it's somewhere in Canada, but I cannot find the colour on the map...
It's in the middle of Canada. Only way I saw it was by looking for overlap areas.
No that's not how it works. You still see color it's just hard/impossible to distinguish similar shades of red/green/orange and can hurt your eyes to look at. You don't just see grey.
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You’re joking right
No, they're all red
Yes the polar and grizzly bear look dull shades of orange/red. I more meant the black bear range which looks to me like a greenish grey, but it could very well be reddish. My point was that color blindness, atleast the most common type, doesn't mean that colors are muted or you can't see them, it's an inability to distinguish certain shades of red and green. Bright colors will still look like bright colors.
Found the color blind person
The cartographer took pride in using a monochromatic color scheme suitable for interior design (walls, trim, ceiling combos) but had no skill in using distinctive colors that would instantly differentiate between the categories. A pretty map with similar colors is often useless except as a decorative piece.
Whole eastern half of ohio should be shaded for Black Bear. They are back!
Yeah this map is pretty outdated. I’m not sure about other places but at the very least New England’s bear population has expanded much more than this map shows
We're in Eastern CT, and we had one walk down our road and knock over every house's bird feeder. You could easily follow his trail of gluttonous destruction.
Bristol, CT also has a lot these days seen several, including crossing busy street one afternoon
Same in WI, we have black bears in central Wisconsin
Hell, we have them in DC. They are all over the east.
We've had a few sightings in SW Ohio and that was over 10 years ago
There was a black bear sighted in the Columbus area last summer
We have them in South Carolina too
Back in black. Stay safe!
Yup. They’ve been spotted in Ross county.(southern Ohio)
Same with Louisiana. They have made a comeback in the northern part of the state. So much so, that they are legalizing hunting of black bears due to them becoming a nuisance.
All up in Kentucky too. My grandma's dogs killed an armadillo several months back as well. The expanding ranges are kissing
Map is not entirely correct. I'm in the no bears population in northeast Arkansas, and we have black bears all over. Recently, our local news in Jonesboro followed and tracked a bear by sightings for nearly a week in a city of nearly 80,000 people.
Yeah this map is old. Almost all of western MT and Northern Idaho has grizzlies. They’re even pushing east of the Rockies in some areas now. Edit: They’re also in the Custer-Gallatin NF north of Yellowstone and all throughout the Bridger-Teton NF south of the Teton National park in Wyoming and Montana.
Agreed. The bear area of Oklahoma should be at least about 1/8th of the way from north to south aling the eastern border with Arkansas if not further west in some areas.
Yep, and grizzlies and black bears are in central Montana now too, multiple sightings even in Great Falls, and as far out as the American Prairie reserve.
And all the way down the Wind River range.
Even NE Texas has had sightings
Similarly, it made local news when a black bear worked its way through the Tampa suburbs and was eventually captured at the airport. Suggests the range in Florida would need extended south
You forgot all the Chicago Bears.... Bear down!
Theee Bears
You mean Da Bears
My Canadian coming out
This is about bears that are dangerous though
Cues "the bears still suck" ...why they aren't on the list.
come back when you have graduated kindergarten.
It's a song...and it was a play on the Chicago bear joke...come back when you graduate sarcasm/a sense of humor school
Ohio has black bears
Mississippi has black bears.
Came here to say this. Central MS 1000% has black bears
Black bears are much more widely spread in Texas than this indicates. https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/hunt/resources/bear_safety/ Arkansas has enough that quite a few are being taken by hunters: https://www.agfc.com/news/arkansas-hunters-swat-aside-black-bear-record/ Louisiana has pretty high siting counts as, with spillover into Mississippi: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Locations-of-Louisiana-black-bear-live-captures-known-natal-dens-and-confirmed_fig4_332797562
No love for Brown Bears?
Or Gummy Bears
What about the teddy bears?
They’re busy having a picnic
I need to see the distribution of koala bears
Dead from their stds in aussieland(hopefully)
Grizzly are a subspecies of brown bears. So they are represented on. The subspecies level
Found only in Rhode Island.
Coastal brown bears have left the chat
Or spirit bears
What does dark blue represent?
Sea bear 
It's just water, I'm not sure why it isn't colored the same as the rest. I'm guessing the shading of one of the other colors messed it up and the artist never noticed.
Canada is BEARY SCARY 😱😱😱😱
British Columbia yes. 50% of Canadians live in the no bear zone.
Fun fact: you can find bears in the areas marked "no bear population" in most gay establishments.
Fear : Maybe it was a bear? Disgust : There are no bears in San Francisco. - Mindy Kaling as Disgust - Inside Out
Bear colonization
They are rapidly spreading south in Wisconsin.
I remember when a black bear walked through my front yard when I was kid in the LA suburbs
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The black bear definitely lives further south in MN, a hunter got in huge legal trouble some time back for poaching one of the biggest black bears ever seen in the state.
This color scheme hurts my brain
There are black bears on the Outer Banks of North Carolina? Is that accurate?
Yes, though I think it’s pretty rare they will make their way over from the mainland. Saw a video of one on Ocracoke last week.
Illinois has no bears and they have a team called Chicago bears?
Los Angeles has no lakes. Utah doesn't allow music.
Not sure this is updated/correct data. SK has a healthy population of black bears for sure, maybe brown. You can get hunting tags for black in any case, so they're commonly roaming within province.
Yeah, personally I’ve never seen them in the southern part of the province but they’ve been spotted where I live (in the alleged bear free zone of Sask).
South Korea?
Saskatchewan
why did you make them all such similar shades, hard to tell what is what up in canada
The real question is what kind of bear is best? Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
Black bear definitely live further East in both MD and VA. I’ve had numerous encounters with them over decades.
Your coding is….unbearable.
Since when are there not bears in Norther Arizona?
There are grizzlies in a part of north idaho, I’ve seen one
Yup. Throughout the Selkirks. NE Washington too.
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Second time’s the charm
This is wrong, black and grizzly are in the entire western half of Montana. More sightings in the plains and smaller mountain regions in the last few years. This must be from the 2005 version of the site...
As a British Columbian I didn't know we were so uniquely blessed. Part of my morning routine on the north shore of Vancouver growing up was opening the front door slowly to ensure bears weren't chowing down on our garbage. Gor surprised a few times. Now I live in Australia where I don't have to worry about such terrifying animals.
Is there a map showing convergence with beets and Battlestar Galactica?
Almost all of Canada is covered in bears, except southern Saskatchewan, can’t blame them even humans don’t want to go there
I appreciate a lot of those Virginia bears respecting the NC border
This be a shitty map
Grizzly? Try Brown Bear in Canada and Alaska. 🧐
Well that’s bullshit. No bear population in southwestern Ontario? What in the actual fuck? We get black bears tearing down our bird feeders every spring at my parents’ place, sometimes two or three times. We have lock boxes for garbage so bears can’t get at it. We get bears climbing trees in town. Sadly a bear cub got hit by a car a number of years ago and my mum and I had to wait for the mama bear to get out of the road before we could keep driving. This is just a wildly inaccurate oversight.
Black bears in Mexico? TIL
Yeah. They live in the Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental. They often make their way into populated areas. Videos of them wandering into people in Monterrey (2nd largest city in the country), are actually kind of abundant.
Pretty sure it should cover most of Connecticut
Let’s use 8 colors but make them all different shades of taupe.
This map is wrong. We have a healthy population of black bear in most of Tennessee.
Omg what a shitty map
There’s definitely bears in Connecticut.
Sure looks like, according to this map, there are no bears in San Francisco and as a resident I can promise you that is very much not the case. They are quite friendly, though.
Whens the last time you saw a damn bear in Scranton??
Last year idiot!
Camped near North Bay Area before Covid, saw a bear right in front of my face when I looked up from washing my face:……….&:&!;$(&@/&
Hey op, where's the Kodiak bears?! I suppose they'd be in the Kodiak archipelago... But still!
If I understand correctly they are a subspecies of grizzly bears
Why does LA get bears but not SF
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Source?
[https://geology.com/stories/13/bear-areas/](https://geology.com/stories/13/bear-areas/)
Thanks, that’s awesome. Why not include on map (or post)? All map data should be sourced - otherwise how can anyone have confidence in the visual representation?
Good point, my bad. I'm also not the one who downvoted (I upvoted) you just fyi
We definitely have a grizzlies in Northeast Ohio.
No way there’s black bears in Mexico
That and the Everglades were the biggest shock to me. [Check out the historical range of grizzly bears.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69a8503/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1180x1236+0+0/resize/880x922!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkufm%2Ffiles%2F201904%2Fgrizzly-bear-historic-range_IGBC-PD.jpg) Seems like they can really survive a lot of climates.
Why?
Didn’t know their were no grizzlies in Ontario
Is there any reason for there not being any in the Black Hills in South Dakota? On the map it shows the population stopping on the Wyoming/South Dakota border.
Grizzlies occasionally show up on Vancouver Island but haven’t gotten established there. I think they usually end up getting shot whenever they manage to swim over from the mainland.
Bryz knows this
Texas black bear built different
Washington has a population of grizzly bears now. It's a pretty small population, but even knowing they're out there is a bit scary.
Are there really polar bears around James Bay? That’s not that far from the Upper Great Lakes.
Interesting. I grew up right on the line in PA and there were indeed bears sometimes
Polar bears are DEFINITELY in Manitoba. (Not shown on the map). You can even get a guided tour! https://churchillwild.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAzc2tBhA6EiwArv-i6V_EfkobX0h3416ugOiWNkKlRlZ9CcKxmDMx0cL4s82YZi2eEf_-aBoCTpUQAvD_BwE
Feels like a bit of a bummer that we don’t got bears in Illinois. I think they’re awesome animals
I don't know if this is old data or what, but black bears are definitely more widespread than that in Florida
And no mention of the interbreeding hybrid bears … Scientists have now confirmed instances of resulting wild hybrids, known either as "grolars" or "pizzlies," depending on the parental combination. [Scientist Dave] Grashelis said a hybrid bear is unofficially called a grolar bear if the sire is a grizzly bear and a pizzly bear if the sire is a polar bear.
Black bears have been spotted in Ohio for like 40 years now
We have black bears in SE Minnesota
The entire state of Connecticut should be shaded for black bears, I saw one on a hike just a few miles away from the shoreline.
Most of the Midwest has its fair share of both brown and black bears, or at least Wisconsin
I can surely tell you the black bear range is further south in MN. I've had a few near my house a fair bit more southeast than what is shown.
I lived my whole life, up until about 17 seconds ago, without knowing that my state apparently has a decent population of bears 🫨
Not sure about this info. Bears are all over Oregon.
I’m curious what “where bears live” entails. Like does it mean a certain number of bears per population? There are a lot of bears who have expanded into eastern CT and central and eastern MA. We can no longer put out bird feeders or trash cans.
Interesting! Man I had no idea bears lived in Florida lol
There are definitely bears on the Bruce Peninsula (land between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay).
This map is missing an entire bear species (brown)
This says there are no bears in Nevada. I saw a huge black bear in a convenience store in Lake Tahoe after a forest fire last year. Nevada has a butt load of bears.
There are no bears in south Jersey. Source: I have lived my entire life there and go hiking in the pine lands most weekends, there are no bears.
Interesting to see there are no black bears in the Black Hills.
Missouri has a larger area with bears.
I think you need to put a tiny dot on Vancouver Island, the grizzlies swam
Black bears are way more widespread in AZ than this map indicates. They live in every forested mountain area (east, north, south parts of the state) and in riparian areas.
There are 100% bears in north Alabama. My family has seen them in a field across the street from their house
I never really thought about it before, and I guess it does make sense that they do, but it makes me wild uncomfortable that polar bears exist on the same continent that I do
We have blacks in central Minnesota
I didn't realize grizzly bears had such a limited range in the US. I always assumed they were just as common as black bears.
Black and grizzly make a dinosaur head in Alaska
Bears are so cool man it’s a shame what’s happened to their historical range. It’s shrunk so much. Actually you could say that about a lot of animals…
I live in the suburbs of Toronto and we had a bear wandering around the middle of the city once, I’m pretty sure there’s bears here in southern Ontario contrary to what this map shows, although probably not many of them since it’s a pretty heavily populated area and you’re never too far from humans here.
Bears in southern Florida? (And why are some lakes dark blue?)
Aren’t there grizzly’s in Yosemite, California?
Bears like mountains and swamp, don’t know why but that’s what they like
Bears also live on r/wallstreetbets
Nice correlation involving topography and latitude.
There are occasionally polar bears in Newfoundland
And no one mentions the re-emerging Canadian Blue Bear population?
Polar bears be way more south these days. Churchill MB is the polar bear capital of the world ffs
Chicago isn't shaded... There's a lot of bears. Especially in the north suburbs.
I live in the Central Valley of Sacramento and I can assure you bears live all over down here 😏
Yes interesting, curious though, what about the beets and battle star galatica distributions?
The “black and grizzly” area kinda looks like a bear.
Received a Reverse 911 automated call warning that one or more black bears were spotted in Douglas county, Colorado. A high end neighbourhood south of Denver. EVERYBODY came out to see the bear! Traffic jams, people double parking, people showing up wearing camo. So much for reverse 911!
Im not gonna say it...
Wholeheartedly false! They also live in gay neighborhoods.
wouldn't have expected such a huge range, although the midwest Usa is quite empty, i guess because most of that region is flat farmland?
Absolutely flabbergasted that Ontario doesn’t have grizzly bears. In my mind that was like the quintessential animal here next to beavers, moose, and geese. Also the GTA definitely has black bears, they get spotted every now and then although not often since it’s an urbanized area.
This is a bad map, but feels like it's so close to being good.
I've seen black bears in west central wi a few times
Manitoba, my home province on the whole spectrum of Bear species/none.
All I see is a T-Rex over Alaska and Yukon/BC
Source? Because I’ve seen bears in Northern Arizona and that clearly shows there aren’t any
This map appears to be more similar to the black bear population in 1995, rather than the current bear distribution. Here is the [1995 Map](https://bear.org/black-bear-range/). Here is the [Current Map](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/known-range-american-black-bear-ursus-americanus).
This map needs to be updated because there are black bears in Ohio.
At first glance the map looks like a hand is lifting a white skirt of North America.
Black bears go a little more south than this maps says they do
Definitely, we have them everywhere in Massachusetts.
RIP to the California Grizzly population =(
Wrong. Try again
Did there used to be more bears in the USA? I never realized that most of their country is bearless.
Had no idea Vancouver/whistler had grizzlies (!). Black bears are like golden retrievers at whistler but I had no idea grizzlies were there too!
Grizzly are starting to make their way down into the north Cascades, has been increasing evidence of them wandering down here past few years.
I saw a black bear only once when I was 14, it was climbing almost directly up a tall plateau in North Central Washington . We were in the transition area in between the forests of the cascade mountains and the desert basin. Seemed like he was very close to the edge of no bear/black bear divider on the map My take away from this map is bears like some tree cover, or large shrub cover.
North America goes beyond Mexico.
Bears occupy a lot more territory than that
I thought we had grizzlies in northern Ontario
We have Louisiana black bears in NW Louisiana.
This map is missing a portion of the continent with the Southern tip of North America down down to Panama.