6/11/10 - Oswald Bear Ranch, Newberry, MI

The Oswald's have turned a twenty-five year hobby into a unique and fascinating business. They raise and rehab black bears. Many of their "residents" were born elsewhere, and later brought to the Bear Ranch to live. Each day, Dean Oswald goes in to Newberry and collects unwanted-surplus-food from five restaurants and a grocery store. This helps defray the large coast of feeding 28 hungry black bears at the Ranch.

This yearling couldn't make up his mind which way he wanted to be in the tree and finally decided to just get down.