Nevada wildlife wardens capture, release 11 bears since July 1
Two black bears trapped Tuesday were released back into the wild by Nevada Department of Wildlife wardens. So far, 11 bears have been safely released back into the Sierra since July 1.
Both bears were tagged, tattooed and micro chipped in order to identify them in the future should they come back in to contact with humans. Neither bear had previously been handled by NDOW.
A four-year old male bear that was caught in a rural area of south Gardnerville was captured and released on Tuesday. The bear was making a “minor nuisance of itself” according to NDOW biologist Carl Lackey. The bear was released into the Pine Nut Mountain Range on Tuesday evening, according to a news release.
A young male black bear (estimated to be two to three years of age) was caught at Incline Village in an area where nuisance bear behavior had been occurring.
“We’re not sure if this is the bear causing the trouble so we are going to be able to give it another chance,” said Lackey. “Because it is a young, dispersal age bear, we can take it to a more rural area (about 50 miles east of Gardnerville) and release it with a chance that it may become a wild bear and avoid nuisance behavior.”
In both of the successful releases, aversion conditioning of the bears, including the use of Karelian bear dogs and the shooting of rubber slugs from a shotgun were used to dissuade the bears from returning to areas where humans live.
Early Wednesday morning in the upper Kings Row neighborhoods of northwest Reno which are located in the foothills of Peavine Mountain, a black bear was seen wandering through some neighborhoods. The bear was seen by credible witnesses returning to the upper (and uninhabited areas) of Peavine between 7:30 and 8 a.m.
Since July 1, NDOW has handled 15 bears in western Nevada. Eleven of those bears have been safely released back in to the wild. Two of the bears were hit and killed by cars, one was euthanized for public safety reasons and one was euthanized for depredating upon livestock.
July is BEAR Logic month in Nevada. The Nevada Department of Wildlife is asking people to do all they can to keep bears safe and wild by removing any attractants on their property which might attract bears to trouble.
Call the experts: NDOW Bear Hotline Number: (775) 688-BEAR (2327)
Persons needing to report nuisance bear activity can call the NDOW’s Bear Hotline telephone number at (775) 688-BEAR (2327). For information on living with bears persons can go to www.ndow.org and find the ”Bear Logic” page on the web.
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