Yosemite’s Interdivisional Bear Team accomplished: 210 night patrols; 38,573 vehicle inspections; and 4,607 campsite inspections. The staff of 18 (employees/interns/volunteers) mitigated 7,862 food storage violations; wrote 1,954 food storage warnings and gave 1,065 verbal warnings; and impounded food 54 times. They set 239 bear traps; captured 21 individual bears; radio collared 12 bears; and received 25 reports of bears hit by vehicles (5 confirmed deaths). Bear activity peaked in August, with 124 incidents. In more than 535 total incidents, financial damage amounted to more than $80,000—half to cars in parking lots.
http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/bear-management.htm
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