First deadly black bear attack on human in California documented in Sierra County
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The first documented case of a deadly black bear attack on a human in California history took place in Sierra County, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The attack was in November 2023, but it took time for investigators to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
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A bear or a man alone in the woods?????
I thought women prefer the bear over the man.
I feel bad for the woman who died. But putting out cat food, on the porch, in bear country, daily.
And not responding appropriately, and forcefully when bears do start coming around...
This hazard to her safety was invited in. Reminds us, don't feed the bears! By accident or on purpose.
If you have feral cats around you home how else do you feed them? I knew a lady who ran a restaurant in the woods for 30 years feed over 35 cats with the scraps from the restaurant. Never had a bear problem. Personally, I think the sheriff needs to take lessons from the Bear Whisperer from Mammoth Lakes area.
Shut up
@@ms6071 You do NOT feed feral cats. Cats are a horribly damaging invasive species. You trap them, and if you can't adopt them, you TNR. Your story of the restaurant owner is just as silly as your ideas about cats.
They can smell the pet food through the doors and windows a dog's sense of smell is a thousand times greater than a human. Imagine a bears sense of smell?😅 i think you are lucky they usually only want cat food and chocolate peanut candy. Birdseed too. This happens because some people do feed them. It might be because of loss of prey, and berries, they learn about people and pet food. They like swimming pools too
@@ms6071No USURY
The first ever?!? That’s wild. I doubt that was the first. Maybe the first documented
Not the first. Maybe the first in the last several decades, that the state was forced to admit.
Just like the stupid mantra of wolves don't attack and kill humans.
@@cwavt8849 there has only been a few wolf attacks--they were in canada from people feeding them
People disappear, wondering how many of them got eaten by bears.
It's a black bear. Black bears are generally not deadly like that. Brown bears are the killers. Black bears should run off when humans are around.
Stop feeding bears and wild animals and these interactions won't happen.
@@cwavt8849 That's a coming for sure. People have forgotten basic nature 101. They're about to get a lesson.
I do restoration. I did the demo at this house on 3 different visits. Whats interesting is why this story was JUST posted 3 hours ago.
Because investigations take time and assessment? Especially when the bear has consumed someone. It’s a situation with how to deal with a particular kind if situation, where the owner had had contact with the bear. And had given it too much access to food.
And it had happened just before Christmas. Not to mention tracking down and dealing with the bear.
They always say BEAR.
ragin.germasian,
Different time zone... ☆
They didn’t want the ‘woke’ protestors telling them about how to treat problem bears. Now it’s done and over, nothing to see here.
if you move into bear country, expect bears...
You did, and you don't expect bears.
It's our territory.
@@hillbillychic8417 No, you are an invasive species. It is THEIR territory.
Exactly, I don't feel bad for these people they chose to live in bear country
@@luie92114 It's our country.
So the thing they are not telling you is that the bears that are a continuous problem in Yosemite are relocated to that area. Now they are problem bears there. I know this because we used to camp and ride the Downiville Down Hill trails quite often and always had bear problems in the camp grounds. The bears would literally walk up and grab a case of water during daylight hours off the picnic table. Not food, a case of water. We went to the USFS, and they explained why this was happening there. The bears in the campground were not afraid of people at all. Not surprising to me this happened.
If you decide to live in Bear Country, don't own a firearm and feed the bears then you are putting yourself on the menu and ringing the dinner bell.
*edit* you're also putting others in danger by removing the fear bears have of humans.
And by enticing bears more into a neighborhood with other people, children and animals.
I feel bad for the bear and not this stupid woman.
You are also putting the bear in danger when it approaches the wrong person and they shoot it. People just need to not feed bears.
How do you know "She didn't own a firearm"? It's not mentioned in the story.
@@josephshields2922lol then she would still be alive
She chose the bear
💀
People can be so ignorant
Public schools
yeah you are
I just can't fathom why people live in Bear country.....
@@user-st6nt4ou6f i cannot fathom why people drive cars--a million,350,000 people die car crashes every year worldwide,millions more badly injured--bear meat taste great,bear rugs are awesome....nit wits are every where especially on uboob
there is a reason man got rid of the bears.
This is for all the dummies who say black bears are not aggressive. Like that officer from Fish and Wildlife halfway through the video. If you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you? Really?
Really. But if food is involved all bets are off.
There's always going to be "that one bear". For the most part they do avoid people but when one is fearless and focused on getting into house he is dangerous.
I’ve encountered them many times in the wild. They aren’t aggressive.
This lady was acting the fool.
If you don't bother them. They won't bother you. But of course there is always that 1 or 2 that doesn't follow the norm. Like humans.
And we support the right to arm bears.
Black bears can be very aggressive.
Come on folks get real any bear breaking in your house should become a RUG ! Asap. No need to get permission from anyone when your in fear of your life!!!!
Seems like the bear wouldn't have been coming around if she hadn't been feeding it or leaving food out for stupid cats.
Yup🇺🇸
@@billyyank5807don’t blame the cats; don’t blame the bear.
@@saythankyou111
God bless Mercia 🇵🇷
@@billyyank5807 Wasn't the bear going door to door? This bear should have been relocated. God created humans above all other animals.
I love how this is coming after the whole man versus bear in the woods frenzy
if they're willing to do this to bears, what will they do to mans? 😧
If you feed a bear …you have a bear
Great quality reporting!
There is a guy on RUclips who feeds a bear he named Simone right on his front porch in a house similar to this one. I wonder if this lady was feeding bears too? It's a tempting but really stupid thing to do. Bears look so cute and cuddly until they decide to hurt you. The law puts tags on bears ears to mark them as nuisance bears, one tag means they have been busted once, second tag is last chance. Once Yogi runs out of ears, his time on earth is over. Please don't feed bears.
I saw this, too!
I don't understand how he is allowed to do this either. He is not only putting his neighborhood in danger but the bears as well.
He lives in my area. He is so out of line and the game warden needs to arrest him.
@@brie1987 Right, why don't they???
Don't feed wild animals in general.
Yup,seen that guy too. It's extremely reckless and dangerous. State wildlife officials don't care. 🤷
@kevincourtney7312 Yes, I have seen several of those videos of his and think he’s skirting death. You cannot trust wild animals that can unalive you.
Bears are everywhere in Downieville. We used to go to the dump and could always see bears going through the garbage.
She was naming the frequent bear. This is a Tim Treadway-type incident.
No you didn't listen closely. She didn't want the bear there. She might have named him but she also physically him on one ocassion.
And Yosemite doesn’t want hikers carrying bear spray.. ridiculous..
My aunt used to live on a lake in northern Minnesota. A young bear spent a summer hanging out on her porch. She didn’t cook anything the whole summer because she was afraid it would try to get in the house.
If you live in the woods, treat your home like a campsite. No bear-bait (trash or food outside). Condolences to the family & friends.
Don’t blame bears for the outdoor environment that you are in
Well I’m sure there was an animal that used to live in the environment that you live in, so can you please go live in an igloo in Antarctica? Would hate for you to disturb the wildlife
I'm sure you take antibiotics and kill bacteria even though your body is their environment. So don't blame bacteria and let them eat you.
@@Father-klovkoski exactly
Have learned from neighbors and old timers about the wildlife in areas I have lived in. The officials, real estate agents apartment managers, local city authorities and the sheriffs are not exactly open and honest until something horrendous happens.
Yeah maybe its a cover up because the bears are a powerful voting block or maybe the Sheriff is just telling you the truth.
That’s why these people should not be feeding the wild bears or any wild animal. I see this all the time there’s a man feeding a herd of deer at his home all the time stupid people do stupid things. Leave the wild animals alone and quit feeding them.
Maybe not documented however it's not the first time a human was killed by a black bear in the Sierra's
name any human killed by black bear in cali and where,the date---around 500 grizzly used to hang out in LA county alone,the sierras were full of them until about 1850--grizz attacks in cali were common in the old days
*Sierra
Someone should have helped this old lady. Maybe she couldn't handle things herself
So the bears are more important than humans?
It's the same story played out weekly: This is so rare, this never happens, black bears are not a danger,......but the bodies are beginning to pile up.
A bear with taste for human blood is no longer a good bear. It's a serial killer.
Don't tempt apex predators with food. That bear didn't go seeking her out. He was drawn in. Leave the bear alone. Didn't do anything wrong except behave like a bear.
@@billyyank5807 the bear walked into a house - this didn't happen in the wild. 🙄
Really? And what is your source for that information?
@Riley0509 if your husky killed your newborn. You'd still keep the dog until it killed you... that's OK...It's your choice. But a wild animal that is no longer afraid of killing and eating a human being is a danger to society.
@@SerephimLife They said she was already dead. It didn’t kill her.
It’s getting difficult making a living as a black bear, let alone any bear, grizzly, brown, polar
Hey, stopped chasing them with hounds! Now they’re getting less and less afraid of us.
Why don’t these people have security doors knowing they live in bear country??
If it is a wood frame house, a bear can enter through an exterior wall.
@@eddenoy321 ohhhhhh. Nooooo
They didn’t have to kill the bear, too. The bear was doing what bears do for god sake. They could have sent it to a sanctuary or something. This is frustrating.
Women ???! Yall dont understand nothing
He tasted human flesh he's gonna hunt people now if not put down
I am sorry this woman was killed. However, her persistent negligent actions created the dangerous problem that caused her demise. I am angered that causing her own death resulted in the euthanasia of a wild animal. When a human chooses to live in an area, that is common with wild predators, it is the responsibility to of the human to become familiar with the instincts and behaviors of those animals, in order to protect one self, one's family, the environment and animals that drew the person to this location, in the first place. To ignore these responsibilities is a level of arrogance that I will never understand.
Yes, people who leave food and trash out in bear country should be fined. And let's stop caling this "euthanasia".
Its idiots that dont follow our rules that cause these bears to become ruthless.
That's what happens when you take away hunting and bears lose their fear of humans. The more they are close to civilization, the more this happens and they are hit by vehicles.
That's what happen when civilization keeps getting closer to bear country.
Bear population exploded when DFW changed the hunting rules. Always been bears there, just more now. See them more often than deer.
My neighbor died of natural causes in his yard and a bear ate him. At first the cdfw was going to kill the bear, but our neighbor had in ernest told so many people over the years, when he died he wanted to be eaten by a bear. Ca DFW backed off and decided not to kill the bear. They said there is actually no danger. Bears who find a dead human and scavenge don't become man killers. They were going to kill it just to satisfy what is usually the public sentiment, but our town wanted our neighbors last wishes honored. This was years ago,and that bear lived to see another day and never bothered anyone, and our neighbor got his dying wish.
i do not believe your story
nice try, princess.
@@rustyford3406 sounds like a treehuggers acid trip
@@rustyford3406 you liberal scumbag
I can't bear to hear this story.
This video seems like it should be longer than 7 minutes. Is there more to it and if so where do I find it?
Horrific!
I’m sorry, but I keep hearing bears can break into someone’s home. No thank you! I can’t imagine living in bear country with my child!
It's not a big deal. Don't leave food sources out and they don't come around 😂
Bear country is even LA suburbs. The bear population is out of control.
@@silvieb2024, yes the bear population is out of control... I live in upstate NY... The bears are roaming around and coming on our property... I'm so scared...
@@billyyank5807 not necessarily true. most bears stay away from people but some time or another there is going to be "that bear"
All country is bear country and you WILL have to be smart enough to carry your defense as a human. Not likely bears carry a map showing where they are allowed to visit or what they are allowed to eat.🎭
I just learned lt a bear attack and they can cross over 20 feet in seconds…..
Duh my grandma can too.
Are women still choosing the bear?
Lol oh yeah they are. They would rather die than be wrong bro
So sad for Miss Miller. The bear was doing what bears do. So sad her family wasn't available.
Black bears are usually very non-aggressive.... but are EXTREMELY habituated to food source. So if the bear is successfully getting food on your porch, trash can, etc. even ONCE, its going to keep coming back and increasing aggression. Even worse if it comes on your porch and you're cooking an aromatic lunch, it will be coming for the windows. A mom bear will definitely teach that "successful location" to her cubs.
Any time a person allows a bear to get food or trash, they've just signed a death notice for the bear. ALL the folks in this story who left food out at their homes, or "forgot" to secure the trash should be fined or worse. Leaving cat food outside in bear country is pure insanity.
Oh poor lady, what a horrible thing to happen. Terrifying to live around these aggressive bears, but that’s their home too, so they’re going to show up.
Seems like there is reticency to say the bear killed a human
No the tape is misleading it changes halfway through. There are just as many folks that assume a dead body in the woods consumed by wildlife was killed by wildlife when many hikers and hunters die of natural causes. There is nothing wrong with thoroughly investigating an incident.
The fact the bear was harrassing her for some time was and not removed by Wild Life Dept is criminal.
Did she report it?
I personally don’t think it would have mattered the wild life expert said himself. This has never happened. And wanted to let it go. Not surprised there was more than one in the area or that the DNR denied it and blamed the women.
janetprice,
They didn't know.
She never reported it.
Why ? Because she was feeding the bear.... ☆
@@reginarobinson2080
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to call one of these agencies but in my area it’s impossible to call and speak to someone.
My husband and I found a bald eagle that had been hit by a car last summer. It was 4 days before the guy showed up to get it And then he took all my information including a picture of my drivers license. 🤦🏻♀️. Still don’t know with the necropsy showed or if it’s even done 9 months later. When I was a kid my dad found one dead on a snowmobile track. We took it to a DNR office and a few months later got a postcard in the mail saying what it had died from. Lead poisoning from eating fish that had eaten lead on the bottom of the lake from duck hunters shotgun loads. Since then the regulations have changed and shotgun loads are no longer aloud to have led in them.
But anyway calling any “government agencies “ is a nightmare to speak with a actual human. The fees and regulations keep getting longer and more expensive but customer service is no longer there.
This poor woman had a problem with more than one bear to the point that she was killed. They of course blame it on her then new reports she died of natural causes. Many months later we find out. No. She died of a swipe to the neck by a bear in her home. This woman is not to blame here. There is to many bears in the area to the point that they are going into homes bc their natural food source is either no longer there or they have learned to associate humans with food.
The bear killed the woman. I know it's in the title and everything but for some odd reason people here still can't figure it out.
Your living in the mountains, the BEARS home! The Bear was hunting and came upon this poor lady. What do you expect? Humans encroach more and more on wildlife habitat and sadly this happens. Living in Bear country shouldn't be allowed. Respect their right to life and move out of the mountains
Good thing you weren't a pioneer for sure no country or country folk would exist Today!🥴
Now your saying a bear should hunt humans? 🌀
@traci635 you really cant be that ignorant but then again your comment says you are.
My husband and I frequent that area along with Sierra City. The problem is, people visiting or passing through leave trash. Example: my husband and I fly fishing and there's everything from disgarded food to human fecal matter on the ground. It's not the locals trashing Downiville/Sierra City it's the tourists and weekenders. I've lost count on how much trash I have picked up in these lovely places.
But women would rather be in the woods with a bear over a man, here you go ladies!
Was it actually a Black Bear or a Sierra Brown that they call a Black. These fools always say 'it is all the same bear' - But they are Not, not at all... A Sierra Brown and a Coastal Black bear are not the same at all. Not even close...
That's what I was thinking too...brown
In North America, brown bears are grizzly bears, which now live mostly around Rocky Mountain states, Alaska, and Canada. Their typical diet is carnivorous, and they are larger, more unpredictable and aggressive. You can hike and camp in those areas, but be cautious. [Not as dangerous as polar bears, for example]. American Black bears are a different species altogether and live in a variety of habitats in CA. They're omnivorous, eat lots of plants, climb trees, and are generally much less aggressive. To confuse the matter more, both species have variations of brown in their coat colors. All grizzly/ brown bears were killed in CA ~100 years ago. Similar in w. Oregon and Washington.
Grizzly vs black bear body and head shapes are very different; check out pictures of each. In CA, what people call a Sierra brown or a coastal black are both American black bears with variations in coat color.
Now they tell us! When did this actually happen?
If you actually pay attention to the story, you'd understand why.
I live in this town happened nov 2023 it says on some of the article bits in the vid
In 3023
@@nightowl7261...?
It’s not the Bears fault, it’s humanity over populating every square inch of land.
This is the second least-populated county in California with just over 3,000 people. Tell me how overpopulation or human encroachment accounts for this case, please.
@@ChristopherSwartz-f1f but then of course you have 40 million people surrounding you in the state of California. Black bears need at least 15 mi.² of territory to roam to get their food. So with 40 million people taking up all the land and space where does wildlife get to live and thrive?
@@puravidadew7031Well CA is a blue state so it makes sense how they screwed up.
@cbbees1468 Actually you just showed how screwed up you are. Like you most trump supporters don't have two brain cells to rub together.
@@cbbees1468 🙄
I always wonder about the mental health of the law enforcement and coroner’s office personnel who have to deal with these scenes.
Don't feed wild animals in bear country. Bears will arrive.
So true Billy. I feel so bad not feeding the stray animals in need, but understand that it shouldn’t be done because we have bears and mountain lions close by. I even close the doors when I’m cooking.
I some will disagree with this but i grew up in that area been to other countries and it's still the most beautiful place I've ever been.
I'm sorry, this is super tragic, and I am in heartbreak for the woman; however, they blurred out the bear's name at 3:50. That's got to make you snicker just a little. God forgive me.
Arm yourself in bear country
BF was angry the food stopped.
All I see is a fire waiting to happen next
A lot of small mountain communities like this are ticking time bombs
well they got rid of Smokey 🙁 of course the fires come after
Bears just love munching on us geezers, because we are extra crunchy. 🐻🐻🐻
I remember a bear attach in the forest near Hayfork CA 12 years ago. There are more bears now. I heard we have 3x the carrying capacity should be 30k bears but we are at 80K
It's only logical. And only going to get worse, I foresee.
Because bears, whether black or grizzly, have NO natural predators. And if EACH female bear, gives birth to 2-5 cubs each spring, they are territorial, and will need to spread out more & more....plus think about how much food each one will need to forage and fatten up immensely before hibernation. You would think town councils and local officials would seriously consider and plan for this outcome before it gets out of control..
It's only logical. And only going to get worse, I'm afraid.
Because bears have NO natural predators.
And when EACH female bear, whether black or grizzly, gives birth to 2 -5 cubs every spring, they will need to spread out more & more territorially to survive. And as they grow, can you imagine the amount of food each one would need to forage in order to fatten up sufficiently before hibernation? I wonder if town councils and local officials are considering and planning for this obvious outcome.
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Bear populations are out of control and nobody is doing anything about it.
Bears are not the problem. The problem is the people who feed wildlife and who can't be bothered to take precautions with their trash.
That's like saying the forest has too many trees.
Who is responsible for keeping the human population under control? Are we supposed to be able to just keep taking over more and more land just because we're humans?
Why even put yourself at risk by living near bear area? They lived there first 🤷🏽♀️
When I saw one at the national forest I visited earlier this spring I was amazed. In all my years picnicking there never had I ever encountered one. I understood that day I was in their habitat and I was the intruder. Sorry this happened to that lady though
In Ohio, a gov tree hugger org
decided that Southeastern Ohio didn't have enough black bears, so they released some into that population WITHOUT notifying the residents. These are farm people who've lived on the land for centuries, most if whom have outhouses and free range poultry.
My uncle, who lost one leg during war in the south pacific and gets around on crutches, was trapped in the outhouse by a bear that was decimating his poultry while it was between the outhouse and his home for hours.
In Montana, government workers determined there were only 7 grizzlies in a particular, an underrepresentation in their estimation. However, native Americans in that same area gave proof of a more accurate count of grizzlies, which was TWICE the number of bears.
Had the "expert authorities" acted on their numbers to justify releasing more grizzlies into that area, it would have been catastrophic to livestock and humans.
It is a fact little known to the majority of Americans that taxpayers bear the financial burden for livestock killed by bears, wolves. etc. How much for attacks on humans?! What price is sufficient?!. Government bureaucrats need to get out of the business of manipulating wildlife.
Very sad story. I feel sorry for the bears who should never have been allowed to habituate to the inside of human homes, and for the old lady who really should have known better, and who probably had gotten to the point in her life where she should have been in a small apartment rather than trying to maintain a fairly big house in the woods, feeding a lot of cats.
😮When I was a young woman we had a bear break into a cabin going after honey in a gallon tin can that hadn't been opened. That bear smelled it and broke into the tin and ate the honey. Everyone living in bear country needs a barking dog or two. We have family in Alaska and that is the norm there.
I left one cherry Benadryl in my center console in Carnelian Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA. Bears opened all the doors including the center console, got slobber and mud in my car, ripped the seats but could not grab the Benadryl. Pine Sol, yelling, paint ball gun and having no food available works. Boarded up some windows too. Baby bears, yearlings came inside on Easter Sunday. I called Nate, the bear guy from the Sheriff's office. He's a hero. The bears came back twelve times that night. The first visit was face in window, Rosie Bear, with the empty bag of bagels in her mouth. "No vegging!", I said.
"Awe, she's so cute!", Said my daughter who was terrified that morning when the cubs were in the house. PAWS and the Bear League can give you good advice. Do it.
Black bears are known to be pretty mellow. Have th all around here. Unless its a female with cubs and you keep coming at her and or cubs. This is so terrible…
Never challenge a bear. Never feed a bear. Report a beat hanging around neighborhood too much .
Wrong. Black bears you wanna be loud and act big
Got my Bear tag.
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Can't there be some kind of high frequency alarm to broadcast at a distance so bears will hear it and they will be deterred...or leave out food that makes them very sick so they never look at that area as a source of good food? There has to be something that can be done..
I say that to GOD about people🙄🤦♀️.
Human deaths by bear armor frequent in Alaska, wyoming, and montana.
grizz not black bears
@@mtsky-tc6uw exactly
@@mtsky-tc6uw Both.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Not exactly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
That's what happens when you move into bear country.
California bear tag $ 60.22
Did she really have an iron black bear hanging near her doorway?
exploitation of animals just for click bait.
Looks like a beautiful place to live. Does anybody know where this is at?
Downieville is the county seat of Sierra County, California. Downieville is on the North Fork of the Yuba River, at an elevation of 2,966 feet. The 2020 United States census reported Downieville's population was 290.
Downieville, California
This was an extremely confusing video to follow . First they tell you she died of natural causes but later they say the autopsy revealed the bear did kill her. There also seems to be some confusion on the part of comments that think she deliberatly feed the bears. So what I concluded after 3x watching the video is this.
1) She attracted the bears regularly to her home by feeding Cats and often the bears were able to get this food too, However, feeding bears does not make them more agressive and research statistics show it makes them less likely to engage in fatal attacks. A starving bear is far more dangerous.
2) She attracted a bear that had been rewarded for breaking into buildings( either intentionally or unintentionally) and had made it a habit.
3) She died because she responded dangerously to the bear once he got into the house.
This is only my theory but without a home security tape my theory is no worse than any one else's Here is why i say this. I only caught this third time around but her relative stated that the bear had tried this on a previous occasion and "She physically assaulted the bear". So, it is not unlikely that she may have done this again to "Get him out of the house"
Nore: I also noticed bars on windows in the video. was this done before or after the incident. Bears act out of fear and incarcerated bears can become extremely dangerous.
If you have a bear in enter your home exit immeadiately if you can. Leave an escape route, as many doors windows etc as you can and don't try to chase him out of your home or gararge.
there is a reason man got rid of the bears.
How unBEARABLE!
Climate-too much heat and dryness is reducing natural bear food...saw a video on this also happening in Japan.
😂 eat your bugs
How about the department of fish and wildlife outlawing hunting with dogs. Not advocating, just saying the population has exploded since and will continue to. Until the wolf population returns. Then humans have other issues.
Yes it does happen in California
Man vs bear???🤔🤔🤔
Bear
@@VendieSolde he can have u on the menu 😂😂
Lmao i hope u walk past one and let's see how a bear gonna do
Exactly if a bear attacks you aren't fighting back. However, women will still say bear just to try to prove a point lol. Women would rather die than be wrong
@@ATLAS-su9wf bears don't sexually assault women
@@VendieSolde no but they do eat them
Bears gonna be bears.....
Not sure how this is considered a deadly bear attack, if she had already passed away!?!
Pay attention. They said they realized the Bear swiped her in the neck eventually... They also forensically tied the bear the euthanized to her too.
4:04 BEAR BREAKINS???!! Dear Lord! Yall have bear breakins in Cali!!!!????
If she died of natural cause, then why label it "deadly bear attack " 😅 lol
You need better listening skills or paying attention skills.
@@ktloz2246 Exactly. Why do so many people have such poor attention spans these days?
They eventually concluded the bear did in fact swipe her neck. They literally say it in the video. Unless this video is region locked and changes...
"One life is one too many."
The fish and wildlife guy is wrong. My uncle lives in Mariposa County and a bear broke into his home. They don’t leave any food around for bears. He scared the bear and then killed the bear on his front porch.
This happened about 20 years ago.
Bears are very aggressive when looking for food.
Sadly the fish and game wardens tend to be very ignorant.
thats what happens when you take hound hunting away, and the bear population doubles. get what you vote for.
and that is what's going on with the mountain lion population. out of control
@@peggystevens-wj1dz The only population out of control is the human population.
Well, that is not a solution. Grizzly bear is on the flag of CA. They once lived in CA but were hunted to extinction in the area. Black bears rarely attack people…lots of areas have black bears and don’t have this issue
People should be fined for irresponsible disposal of garbage, feeding cats outdoors and for using bird feeders! Keep the bears wild!
Move them to the wild, this was a populated area,
The bears were there first. Take precautions, don't leave animal food on your porch. If you don't want to harm a bear, pepper spray for bears will work on black bears. Always be aware when outside.
Normal bear populations were there first. Due to regulations and no hunting private property. Bears are overpopulated in CA and WA.
@@FredNeck-z4uAnd hundreds of thousands/millions more people have moved into these foothill and mountain communities in the past 10-20 years. What was once unbroken habitat is now a patchwork of roads and homes and fences. Add drought over much of the past 20 years... bear food sources have seriously declined. .
The title is doing too much. That’s not important here.
This town has been human country for over 150 years. It is NOT bear country.
Why do they always save the feel good stories for the end of the broadcast?
In California, first criminals now animals have more rights than people.
Seems like nowadays people don’t have a healthy amount of respect towards NATURE
It wasn’t a bear it was Bigfoot
can't keep your mom under control huh?
@@bloodlove93 Oh!
Bigfoot likes apples, not people.
It wasnt a california compliant bear...
Awww 😢 🐻 don’t kill them please!
🙏. Right. Millions of acres of their home has been burned in Cali. People go fishing and are eating the bears food. It's disgusting. Greedy people.
Coastal Black Bears are Smaller then a Sierra Brown. It is about time that the Sub-Species is officially recognised...
Ahh. Downieville area. We would see a bear here and there by the dumpster while camping near there.
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