by Yosemite Bear Team | Mar 30, 2018 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
[Read parts one and two of this story.] Leaving the yearlings at the den site was hard; after all the effort everyone had put in to get them to that point. Biologists watched their GPS data closely, and after about a month of hibernation in their human-made den, the...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Mar 6, 2018 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
In January 2017, the sibling yearlings—orphaned after their mother was hit and killed by a car on Independence Day, 2016—had been in hibernation for more than a month already. The cubs, once weighing eight pounds each, now weighed between 63 and 95 pounds, after being...
