Young males forced out on their own in spring, DNR says When 4-year-old Solveig Schmidt awoke Tuesday morning and looked outside, she saw something unusual in her family's Town of Algoma yard - a black bear. She reported the sighting to her parents, Ryan and Heather. Given the time (5:30 a.m.) and number of previous local bear sightings (zero), the couple did something not altogether unreasonable: They advised the child to go back to bed. "Honey, bears don't live around here," Ryan, 36, remembers telling his daughter. Perhaps not. But they do move through the area. And little Solveig knows...