Black bear caught near UMBC
Tim Finin, 4:07pm 15 August 2008The Arbutus Times reports that a 140 pound black bear was caught in an area adjacent to the UMBC campus. The bear was apprehended while eating apples from a resident’s tree. Maryland officials had been tracking him for a month as he wandered across the state:
“The bear apparently had made several stops in southern Maryland before heading north through Anne Arundel County, then crossing into Halethorpe, according to Peditto, who heads the Wildlife and Heritage Service at the state Department of Natural Resources. “We had been tracking him for a month,” he said, noting that DNR staff kept track of citizen complaints to determine the bear’s progress. The pattern of complaints indicated the bear’s course of travel.”
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August 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Why did it take a month before they captured the bear? Did they want to wait until it ate someone.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Oh man, I was hoping that black bears where starting to populate this area. Damn! I wish it hadn’t been just a rogue wandering one from another area.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Wow, thats possibly the least informed comment possible. Black bears eat small prey, fruits, and vegetables, they don’t eat large mammals, and the only reason one would attack a person was if it was provoked. They probably had to track it for a month because it kept wandering off before animal control could arrive.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Way to be ignorant, Emily.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Apparently, Heather does not have a sense of humor
August 21st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Is no one interested in what they did with the bear? Did they return it or tranquilize it or….? Why had it wandered to begin with?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Read the linked story in the Arbutus Times. It was tranquilized and released
at UMCPin western Maryland. It was an ‘adolescent’ bear and was his time to go out into the world.