The 2025 bear and elk hunting license application period opened May 1 and ran through June 1. The DNR was set to announced the winners of the license application drawing on June 23.

This month, however, a spirit bear was spotted on a trail camera in Michigan, almost 1,900 miles from the Canadian islands. The camera had been set up in the state's Upper Peninsula ahead of the ...

Last October, Steven Rose came across a spirit bear — a rare white bear with an estimated 400 or less of its kind left in the wild — while exploring the Great Bear Rainforest, according to ...

A genetically rare black bear with white fur – often called a “spirit bear” – has been living in the wilds of the western Upper Peninsula. An approximately 100-pound male bear with blonde ...

A well-kept Upper Peninsula secret about white, “spirit” bears living in Michigan’s Northwoods has now become more widely known. An approximately 100-pound, white- and blonde-colored bear ...