by Yosemite Bear Team | Sep 4, 2021 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
Visitors to Yosemite Valley last fall were more likely than usual to see a bear during their trip. Acorns dropping from Yosemite Valley’s black oaks were perfectly timed with black bears entering hyperphagia, a period when bears are looking for big calorie boosts (up...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Jul 29, 2021 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
http://keepbearswild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/haze-a-bear.mp4 Here’s the situation: you are hanging out at your campsite or on a picnic area beach in Yosemite, when you hear a branch crack behind you. You turn around to find a bear approaching. What do...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Jul 16, 2021 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
We get this call a lot. Too much, to be honest. “Bear hit by vehicle, dead on the side of the road.” Sadly, it’s become routine. I log the coordinates into my phone, gather the equipment I may need, and head to the location. This call came in cold; it sounds like the...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Jul 31, 2020 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
In the last three weeks, at least four bears were hit by cars in Yosemite, at least two of which were killed. The two bears that survived were hit by drivers going faster than the 25 mph speed limit and were seriously injured and limping. We will never know the...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Dec 30, 2019 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
It’s a simple fact that black bears spend their whole life following their stomachs, including in winter. Similar to the postman’s motto, “neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night,” keeps a bear from eating its fill. So for bears in Yosemite, winter...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Oct 4, 2019 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
You are walking along outside when you come upon a large pile of poop. How can you tell if it’s bear poop? Given the variation in their diets, bear scat from one bear can look very different from another bear. Poop from the same bear may look entirely different on...
