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.

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

Using a trained bear hound dog, they attempted to track the bear but were unsuccessful, the Wisconsin DNR says. Several bear traps were set around the area. The DNR plans to eutha