Los Alamos Residents Return And Find Bears

NewsNM - Swickard: remember the saying, a fed bear becomes a dead bear. Do not feed them because quickly they become a pest and are moved into another bear's area which causes a fight to the death between the bears. Also, Wednesday a Mountain Lion was roaming near my house near the Farm & Ranch Museum on the southeast side of Las Cruces. Officials said don't shoot it, shoo it away. Yeah, right.

From KOAT-TV.com - This is not the kind of welcome home that Los Alamos residents were expecting. Some are being greeted by hungry bears. The Department of Game and Fish and the Los Alamos Police Department are distributing brochures instructing residents how to deal with bears. The highly mobile nature of black bears is making it impossible to determine how many bears are in town. Wildfire officials say the natural food supply in the Las Conchas Fire area has been reduced by the fire, and the bears are on the move looking for something to eat. Read more

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