State biologist Carl Lackey is suing bear activists over comments posted on the internet. One of the defendants, Mark E. Smith, is responding with a defamation lawsuit against Lackey, along with several other people.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife say they captured a three to four year old male black bear at Incline Village on Sunday, October 9 in the morning and they released that bear Monday morning at Tahoe Meadows, near Mt. Rose Summit.
A Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman says that a two-year-old female bear was shot and killed by NDOW biologist near Stateline on July 28 after the bear entered an occupied home and attempted to enter several other homes in the area.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife reports that the two male black bears caught in separate Lake Tahoe areas Friday were safely released Saturday.
Our dry conditions mean bears are wandering closer to homes to find food. Early Wednesday morning the Nevada Department of Wildlife caught a black bear in Jack's Valley in Douglas County.
A black bear sow and her three male cubs were captured Thursday morning on the west side of Carson City by the Nevada Department of Wildlife. The four bears were released back into the wild on Friday morning in the Ash Canyon area west of Nevada's capital city.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife says it captured and released three five-month-old black bear cubs on Kingsbury Grade near Stateline on Wednesday.
Two wild black bears are back at home in the wilderness near Lake Tahoe after being picked up looking for food in Incline Village on Tuesday.
Governor Brian Sandoval has declared July “BEAR Logic Month.” “BEAR” stands for Bear Education, Aversion and Research, and BEAR Logic Month is an opportunity to help educate the public about living in bear country.
Mid-March is the time for black bears to emerge from their dens and begin their annual search for food. Another potential problem is people deliberately feeding bears with bird seed and vegetables.