The DNR offers the following advice to avoid black bear encounters: Minimize attractive food around your house or campsite, including keeping garbage cans secured. Never approach a bear. Don't play dead and don't run, instead slowly back away and don't turn your back on the bear.

A woman who was attacked and severely injured by a black bear over the weekend outside her western Wisconsin home had her condition upgraded Tuesday. Karen Frye, 69, was in serious condition, up from critical,

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said the search is ongoing for the black bear behind an attack in Barron County.