by Yosemite Bear Team | Oct 1, 2025 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
Why do Yosemite wildlife biologists capture bears in Yosemite and what do they do when they catch a bear? Wildlife biologists may trap or dart a bear for many reasons, but the most common reason in Yosemite National Park is to manage human-bear conflict. Bears that...
by Yosemite Bear Team | Jul 10, 2025 | Keep Bears Wild, Yosemite National Park
Bears are up and moving in Yosemite National Park! They have been spotted moving around from the Sierra Nevada foothills to Tuolumne Meadows in the high Sierra. Bears typically emerge from hibernation in March or April in Yosemite depending on food availability,...
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
https://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...
