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A hiker in Teton Canyon used pepper spray to fended off a reported grizzly bear Sunday, Wyoming Game and Fish officials said Thursday.
Former Colorado resident Chris Laing was hiking about a mile up the north fork of the Teton Creek Trail, the trail that goes to Table Mountain, when “he contacted a reported grizzly bear sow with two cubs of the year,” Wyoming Game and Fish Specialist Mike Boyce said.
The bear was apparently chasing Laing’s dog when it veered off and headed for Laing.
May to October, it's an odd day in Whistler that I don't see a black bear. Sometimes I have to go out of my way not to. I've bumped into them taking out the garbage, walking down the street, at Starbucks Creekside, outside Village 8 Cinemas, running on the valley trail, biking everywhere and on skis (in a November snowstorm so fierce that the animal itself was caked in white like a Polar Bear). I like the fact that we live in such proximity to black bears, and I get pissed when people's carelessness in yards, homes or on the road results in their death. I'm neither afraid nor overly trusting-after all, they're black bears. I have healthy respect and treat them like the wild, wary animals they should remain.
If you go out in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. A teddy bear picnic it is not, as local [black]bear populations rise from a winter of hibernation to a poor berry yield. Though fewer berries doesn't mean a higher chance of attack, it does indicate bears will be roaming closer to roads and garbage sources in search of food.
New data released in a report of the Journal of Wildlife Management this month confirms previous information that 88 per cent of fatal [black] bear attacks in Canada and the U.S. are the result of predatory behaviour of a male black bear.
Being "bear aware" has been on the minds of many people in recent days, with a reported attack on hikers near Bozeman on Friday and another incident reported near Seeley Lake on Saturday.
Friday's attack on two hikers by a grizzly bear near Big Sky resulted in non-life threatening injuries to the two people.
The season's first report of human-bear conflict came after a man was barreled over by a bear early Friday morning (April 29) near Whistler Village.
The man reported running into the bear at about 2 a.m. on the Valley Trail between Blueberry and the Village near the Whistler Golf Club. The animal knocked him down to the ground and swatted him a few times, Sgt. Chris Doyle of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said Monday (May 2).
Most kids will have stories about the Easter bunny today, but how many will get to talk about the Easter bear?
The Ward family will, after a black bear boldly strolled into their garage late Sunday, climbed into the family’s minivan and helped itself to their Easter treats.
The Wards, who live on Pinegrass Street in Pineview Valley, had just returned from a trip to Kelowna around 11 p.m. They opened their garage door, pulled in the minivan and started unloading.
CAIRO, NY (WNYT/NBC) - A 53-year-old woman was lucky to escape a mauling by a large black bear, despite a lack of visible injuries on her as she sat in her hospital bed at Albany Medical Center.
Still, Joy Bayer-Mozynski said her back is very sore from where she was pinned down by a large black bear.
It happened Wednesday afternoon.
Bayer-Mozynski saw the garbage cans outside her Round Top home, a hamlet of Cairo, New York were knocked over, and the lids were off.
Bear pepper spray is the most effective means of repelling an attacking grizzly or black bear in a non-toxic, non-lethal manner. Although common sense might suggest that guns would provide greater personal protection, research and experience indicates that human-bear encounters that do not involve firearms are less likely to result in injury to a human or bear.
Top 10 Quirky bear happenings for 2010: A year in review
From fending off a black bear with a zucchini to amazing photos of a grizzly chasing a fire charred bison, 2010 has been a year of quirky bear happenings, including a live cam set up to view Lily the bear giving birth to Hope in Ely, Minnesota.
Ghost Grizzlies and Other Rare Bruins features stunning photos of Ghosts and other rare varieties, such as Basalt, Ebony, and Lava grizzly/brown bears. It also shares the adventures of two Ghost grizzly cubs. Finally, it teaches you expert techniques for identifying the variety, sex and age/maturity of a bear, as well as how to recognize bears as individuals.
"Educating bears is easier than educating people," said world-renowned wildlife officer Steve Searles when he met a few months ago with Wildhaven Ranch bear handler Nancy Anderson. Anderson traveled to Mammoth Mountain to meet with Searles.
The famous wildlife officer-known as the "Bear Whisperer"-is a former hunter who began working with the Mammoth Police Department in 1996. Since then his approach to working with animals has changed completely. He no longer hunts animals; he works toward protecting them and guarding their lives by teaching people how to get along with bears.
TOKYO — Bear attacks have shot up in Japan this year and sightings of the animals have spiked, a trend blamed on climatic changes and shifting land use patterns, officials and media reports said on Wednesday.
At least four people were killed and 80 wounded in bear attacks between April and September in the island-nation, much of which is covered in mountain forests, topping last year's total of 64 attacks, said broadcaster NHK.
There have been so many bears in the Village of Pemberton this fall that their peskiness ratio practically puts them in the same category as squirrels — they’re cute and all, but I wouldn’t want one building a nest in my house. So just as I was beginning to feel that I could take bears for granted, that they’re hardly intimidating at all, one bluff charged my son and I, reminding me of just who is queen of the forest around here.
ST. IGNATIUS - We all have horror stories about bad dates.
Andrew White and Dakota Peterson's story might just take the cake.
The two were hiking in the Mission Mountains Aug. 19 only to come 10 yards from a full-grown black bear.
After running from the bear for about 40 minutes, the two made it to their car, half-blind, out of breath and White shoeless, only to have left the keys in the backpack that was dropped at the beginning of the chase.
Wildlife officials in Canmore, Alta., say fewer bear sightings in the past week mean their efforts have been paying off.
Several residents had reported seeing grizzly bears in town in recent weeks.
Since then, officers have been cutting down berry bushes in the area and have set several traps.
"We're going to be continuing that control work in the next week or so," said Darcy Whiteside, of the province's Sustainable Resource Development department.
N. Conway Man Says He Startled Bear When He Threw Trash In Bin
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- A North Conway man needed 16 stitches after an encounter with a Dumpster-diving black bear during the weekend.
Jeff Allard said he was taking out the trash at his apartment complex Sunday night and didn't notice a bear rummaging inside the trash bin. Allard said he tossed his trash into the bin, startling the bear.
Despite recent high-profile attacks by grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area that have killed two people and left two others seriously injured, wildlife officials say human-bear encounters are not on the upswing, and that such events remain "very, very rare."
The most recent attacks occurred last week at a Gallatin National Forest campground east of Cooke City, Mont., near the northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park (Land Letter, July 29).
Conservation officers had their hands full on Sunday (July 11) afternoon, responding to two consecutive calls involving bears that were overly habituated to humans.
In one of the cases, the bear was put down after "it stood on its hind legs and swatted" at an RCMP member, said Lower Mainland conservation officer, Alexandre Desjardins.
We started in Hope and were six miles in on the Resurrection Pass Trail. Kimi was in front with Kobi right behind her, followed by Kyle and myself. We were rounding a corner, and as I looked up Kimi was heading back our way. Ahead of us on the trail were a grizzly bear mama and her two cubs.
Mama started to charge us, and as she was running at us Kobi charged her, barking and growling up a storm. The bear stopped charging and was growling at Kobi, who was holding his ground several feet away. After a few seconds the bear went after Kobi, and he bolted around her and into the bushes, heading away from us. Mama chased, which gave us a few extra seconds of getaway time.
Bear mating season has grizzly bears doing what comes naturally, but what may seem odd to hikers in the area of the Skogan Pass, who witnessed the behaviour on Saturday.
Four hikers were making their way down a trail near Wind Valley when they saw a grizzly bear running down the same path. Since they thought it was coming towards them, they pulled out their bear spray and sprayed it when the bear was still 20 metres away from them.
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