Beaver Creek, located outside of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, has one happy bunch of black bears.  These short video clips tell a part of the Beaver Creek Bears' story.

The young male Beaver Creek Bears get bored after mating season, and try to find things to keep themselves entertained until it is time to lay down for the winter.  The following images show Huey and Dewey (two of the 2019 Triplets), and 2025 Beaver Creek newcomers, 2021 twins Rascal and Fawn Stalker, dancing and playing at The Play Pen.  

The Play Pen is at the cross roads of several wildlife trails, so Huey is often filmed here, waiting for brother Dewey to show up for a play date.  As an aside, young male siblings often hang together for several years for camaraderie, as well as safety from the larger male bears.   

As the following videos show, young Rascal often tries to submarine Huey while wrestling, and Dewey is an aspiring Paw Shadow Artist.

The next videos show brothers Huey and Dewey, and younger brothers Rascal and Fawn Stalker, traversing a dry Beaver Creek bed.  Upstream portions of Beaver Creek often dry up late summer.  Luckily, Beaver Creek is spring fed closer to the Chippewa River, providing much needed water for the wildlife.  Interesting, the young male bears will often refuse to travel down to the Chippewa River to bath once Beaver Creek gets low, becoming the proverbial "dirty bear."  Perhaps too many people and roads along the river for the bears liking, as bears definitively prefer to remain hidden.

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We recommend Hunter's Porcini Rub, which is sublime seasoning when cooking or grilling rib eye steaks.  And Hunter's children's book, Where The Mushrooms Are, is a fun way to get your toddlers interested in nature and everything interwald.

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