Move slowly and if you feel the need to escape, back away slowly.
Make noise-yell, clap or bang a garbage can lid-and it will most likely run off. Experts assure us that the bear is no more interested in a fight than you are. They may well come to ensure your safety but even if the bear is still there, they are unlikely to do anything but report it to the DEC. If you do encounter a bear, you can call the cops on their non-emergency number. As the cooler months set in, empty the outdoor bird feeders. Burn the excess grease off the outdoor grill so they won’t be tempted to lick it. So the first piece of advice experts offer is to keep garbage and food scrap containers closed off-in a shed or the garage. They stay because there is food-in garbage cans, bird feeders and the latest pièce de résistance, food scrap containers.īears have become so popular they got their own Zoom event in mid-August
Habitat loss caused by suburban and ex-urban development has been forcing this once-protected species to seek shelter-and food-in human-populated areas, like Dobbs Ferry. “ An estimated 800,000 black bears roam the continent,” stated the report, “slowly returning to many of their old haunts.”Īnd to new haunts as it turns out. In this century, however, they are making a comeback. During the 20 th century, “overhunting, habitat loss and fragmentation” reduced the nation’s population of black bears significantly, according to a 2015 National Geographic report. Normally, black bears ( Ursus americanus) hang out upstate, in the mountains about half live in the Adirondacks, another third in the Catskills. Many residents experiencing close encounters want someone in authority to do something about it, but there is only one governmental agency empowered to do that: the State Department of Environmental Conservation, the NYSDEC.
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“In my 28 plus years here as a police officer,” says Tarrytown Police Chief John Barbalet, “there have never been this many sightings in our area.” Barbalet believes “it’s probably the same bear who just happens to like our area.”But can it be that one bear keeps showing up in four different villages-sometimes alone, sometimes with a cub, sometimes limping? Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says he has gotten about a dozen calls about bears wandering onto people’s property, knocking over garbage and even outdoor grills. It was perhaps the same bear that destroyed several beehives (you know about bears and honey, of course). Just last week, another bear was videoed rummaging through garbage cans in the Gracemere section of Tarrytown.
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