The post with the interactive map is here. Looks like it has been updated!

WE are in THEIR natural environment!!!

I don't believe they relocate bears now. In Lake Tahoe they have just been shooting them :( In Mammoth they have a bear program that realy helped by mandatory bear proof trash storage and other...

Here's a flyer I created to post and hand out, which Barry kindly made into a postable image. It's just a starting point. Please download it, change it if you wish to in any way, and distribute it....

I know I tend to be optimistic because of my experience on VI (Canada) with its bear management program in the 90's. All of us knew what to do and what we could reply on from fish and wildlife....

This past Monday, the bear in question wandered onto my daughter's dads property in Forestville. They awoke to it "fishing" in their koi pond looking for breakfast. They took some pics then my 16...

And so....? Was there proof the black bear killed the 'human'? Grizzlys in their territory will hunt and consume humans...remains may have gleefully been consumed by the black bear, thankful to his...

Well, I didn't have any porridge to serve them, but we had a lovely tea party.

Wandering bear makes backyard breakfast stop in Forestville

https://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/wandering-bear-makes-backyard-breakfast-stop/nYKps/

Good news! I just talked at length with Larry at the wildlife desk at F&G.

F&G does have the resources to tranquilize and move the bear, (or sometimes they will simply capture it without...

Ah... but we DO have a Spell Checker: Reptilian Overlord 2.0.

That's right :wink:

Thanks for getting my humor.

Can you (or someone) provide a link about this?

Well - here is the PD's story about the goats and bear. Lots more detail and more suspicious that is was the bear.
Bear may have killed goats in Monte Rio
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Some info about bears and livestock. If possible, it might be instructive to share this with your neighbor and see if it fits:

Few black bears learn to kill livestock, but the behavior, once...

I would add to that list:
Keep chickens and pets tightly secured indoors at night.

Are those actual pictures of "our bear"? Wow! Who took them?
Marty

I have in my possession the casts from bear tracks on our driveway approx. 1980 from the ranch I lived on in North Sonoma County, on the ridge just south of Geyser Peak. A salmon BBQ drew them from...

All the more reason to follow the directions on the OAEC website. We don't want the bears to get cozy with being around people. Doing what you can to bear-proof and scaring the bear away is for their...