Bears, bears everywhere in Colorado

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Photo from USGA Museum | John Mummert
A black bear showed up at the US Senior's Golf Tournament at the Broadmoor in Colorado
Springs a few days ago--it stopped the tournament until it traversed several courses.

A friend who lives in Colorado City, Co (sw of Pueblo) told me she had 3 different bears walk across her yard one day recently. And there is a bear hanging around that was just moved miles away to a wilderness area by wildlife officers.

In addition to the bears in the earlier post that I encountered in the foothills last week, there are also bears in my residential neighborhood in Canon City. My next door neighbor told me that they have been raiding his peach trees and one was even seen walking down the street in daylight. Yesterday my friend on whose property I bird frequently found a large amount of bear scat under his bedroom window. Today I was told that there is a "mean" bear hanging out in another location where I like to go birding. So I escort my dogs when I put them out in my yard at night and I am being bear-aware when birding everywhere. I don't resent the bears, this is the price we pay for living in a state still endowed with a lot of wildlife. I am saddened by it as many people do not view it that way and they demand that the bears get moved or killed. Even worse are those who add to the habitat destruction by moving into areas that should be wild and those who leave out garbage and bird feeders that mark the beginning of the end for many bears. SeEtta

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