Travel Blog

Sue:

I have some sad news to share. Remember these cuties:

Well, two are dead and one's been relocated. I'm not sure about the fourth. It's been said he's somewhere around here still. Hopefully doing bear things and staying out of trouble.

Because it's been unusually warm and sunny around here, and we've not been getting the rainfall that we should be getting (at a tailend of a rainforest), all the food that usually grows plentifully for bears hasn't done so this year. So mamma got into some bad habits, namely coming into town and getting into the garbages that weren't properly bear-proofed. And then she took it one step further and pushed open someone's screen door to their house, and went inside the house. That was her death sentence. She was shot by the police.

Then one of the babies was hit by a car and was killed.

And I guess the grey one, the one we call a glacier or spirit bear, learned some bad habits from momma, so he had to be relocated.

Then there was one. We've heard that the last black cub has been doing bear things and staying away from people and all that good stuff. I hope he makes it.

And some good news about the whole thing is that the laws are going to be enforced now, hopefully, about residents in this town keeping their trash contained in proper containers that are bear-proof. Things got a bit lax around here, or so we've heard from the game commission, but now maybe that all will change. We'll see.