MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota wildlife researcher said he plans to resume broadcasting video of hibernating bears this winter, after the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday that he doesn’t need a permit to set up cameras in their dens.

But the Department of Natural Resources said state law clearly bars anyone from disturbing the dens of wild animals in the winter, and if Lynn Rogers plans to set up or handle the cameras from Nov. 1 through April 1, he will need a permit.

Rogers attracted a devoted online following — more than 140,000 Facebook followers — after installing a camera in the den of a bear that gave birth to a cub on the Internet in 2010.