<HTML>Bear activity remained high throughout Yosemite over the past week. Incidents were reported at Curry Village, the Pines Campgrounds, the Valley Wilderness Lot, Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, Young Lakes, Little Yosemite Valley, John Muir Trail, Housekeeping Camp, Rancheria Falls and The Ahwahnee.
Bear Last This Last
Incidents Week Year* Year*
Campgrounds: 7 117 43
Parking lots: 10 108 59
Wilderness: 3 104 80
Other 4 38 10
TOTAL: 24 367 192
* To date
Total property damage this year is $59,649 So far this year incidents are up 91%.
The actual number of incidents may be higher than the numbers above. These numbers reflect the reports received by the Wildlife Management Office as of this week.
A minimum of 14 bears were active in Yosemite Valley in the last week with 11 of them being positively identified either visually or with radio telemetry.
Wildlife Conservation Society/Hornocker Wildlife Institute (WCS/HWI) researchers obtained radio telemetry points and/or visuals on 8 different bears in the past week. A 24-hour continuous monitoring of White 52 was conducted during the week with the bear remaining in an apple orchard for the first half of the monitoring period then traveling to the Wilderness Parking, Ahwahnee Meadow and Stoneman Meadow areas before returning to the apple orchard.
Aminimum of 10 vehicle break-ins happened in Yosemite Valley over the past week.
Wildlife Management had two captures in Yosemite Valley using culvert traps. An approximately 6 year old female that had lost one of her tags was captured in North Pines Campground and tagged as White 52. Orange 5 (a 7 year old female) was captured in the Backpackers Campground and fitted with a radio collar. Both bears were released at the capture locations. A third bear was captured at Murphy Creek and relocated out of the area after being fed by visitors on at least two occasions. (D.Schweizer)</HTML>
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (91% of Full)
Bear Activity Report
All posts are those of the individual authors and the owner
of this site does not endorse them. Content should be considered opinion
and not fact until verified independently.
August 22, 2002 01:44PM |
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
