A grizzly bear with two yearlings has returned to Nelson, B.C. after an attempted relocation earlier this week.
Sow and two yearlings have been spotted around the city after being moved earlier this week.Posted: Oct 06, 2023 9:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 22 minutes ago
In a notice published online, the city says the mother bear and two yearlings have once again been spotted in the community of roughly 11,000 people in B.C.'s West Kootenay region, about 377 kilometres west of the border with Alberta. "We had a good text chain going on with neighbours," he said. "They were a little too close for comfort."
As the bears began to move into neighbourhoods and people's backyards, she said there was a risk they could become habituated to humans and conditioned to the available food.Thomson said a bear biologist from Cranbrook, B.C., was called in and provincial officials, including conservation officers and those with B.C.'s Fish and Wildlife branch, trapped and relocated the bears to an area with plenty of shelter and natural food sources.
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