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Final 2017 Connecticut Bear Sightings: How did Suffield Do?
See how each town in Connecticut stacks up in terms of recorded bear sightings.
Here are the final town-by-town bear sighting statistics for 2017 as compiled by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Sightings are documented only when a resident of a town reports the sighting to the DEEP.
Suffield had more than 50 state recorded sightings.
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Here are the statistics:
- Ansonia 2
- Ashford 6
- Avon 527
- Barkhamsted 126
- Beacon Falls 1
- Berlin 35
- Bethany 7
- Bethel 14
- Bethlehem 41
- Bloomfield 83
- Bolton 1
- Bozrah 1
- Branford 3
- Bridgewater 62
- Bristol 102
- Brookfield 72
- Brooklyn 1
- Burlington 291
- Canaan 64
- Canterbury 2
- Canton 199
- Cheshire 21
- Colchester 1
- Colebrook 23
- Columbia 1
- Cornwall 47
- Coventry 1
- Cromwell 1
- Danbury 82
- Derby 7
- Durham 1
- East Granby 90
- East Haddam 2
- East Hampton 3
- East Hartford 1
- Eastford 1
- Easton 20
- Ellington 12
- Enfield 10
- Essex 1
- Fairfield 5
- Farmington 392
- Glastonbury 7
- Goshen 51
- Granby 191
- Greenwich 3
- Griswold 1
- Groton 1
- Guilford 1
- Haddam 2
- Hamden 14
- Hartford 3
- Hartland 31
- Harwinton 61
- Hebron 2
- Kent 118
- Lebanon 2
- Litchfield 112
- Madison 1
- Manchester 1
- Marlborough 2
- Meriden 6
- Middlebury 43
- Middlefield 1
- Middletown 7
- Milford 30
- Monroe 30
- Montville 1
- Morris 17
- Naugatuck 10
- New Britain 29
- New Canaan 3
- New Fairfield 38
- New Hartford 88
- New Milford 246
- Newtown 81
- Norfolk 136
- North Canaan 37
- North Haven 1
- Norwich 2
- Old Saybrook 1
- Orange 4
- Oxford 47
- Plainville 53
- Plymouth 32
- Portland 1
- Prospect 8
- Redding 46
- Ridgefield 19
- Roxbury 41
- Salem 1
- Salisbury 96
- Seymour 18
- Sharon 48
- Shelton 4
- Sherman 26
- Simsbury 346
- Somers 19
- Southbury 94
- Southington 47
- Stafford 42
- Stamford 2
- Stonington 2
- Stratford 1
- Suffield 53
- Thomaston 14
- Tolland 45
- Torrington 144
- Trumbull 6
- Union 5
- Wallingford 6
- Warren 29
- Washington 68
- Waterbury 33
- Watertown 45
- West Hartford 148
- Weston 10
- Westport 1
- Wethersfield 1
- Willington 8
- Wilton 24
- Winchester 75
- Windham 1
- Windsor 85
- Windsor Locks 9
- Wolcott 28
- Woodbridge 8
- Woodbury 112
- Woodstock 3
Total: 5,731
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Patch Graphic: Kristin Borden
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