Daily News | Counting and cuddling bear cubs across Pennsylvania
GREENTOWN, Pa. – Deep in the woods, down in a hole, Emily Carrollo is rooting through a jumble of warm, dark fur, looking for baby bears to cuddle.
On this late-winter morning, Carrollo, the black bear program manager for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, led a team of biologists, game wardens, veterinarians, students, and onlookers into the forest to check up on this young family. The cubs would be weighed, have blood drawn, then be snuggled by guests for about an hour, before Carrollo put them back in.
Black bears do want to get into your bird feeder, though, or your trash cans. They might even tear off a back door to devour boxes of pancake mix. This mother bear’s den wasn’t far from a residential area and the state park, which is jammed with campers grilling hot dogs and toasting s’mores every summer. It’s a lot of temptation for a bear.
a website built by bear biologists and managers. They include traveling in groups, keeping dogs leashed, and making sure you leave no trash behind in bear country.If you see a bear before it notices you, don’t approach. Stand still, enjoy, then quietly move away,” BearWise advises. “It works well. They’re actually very good foster moms,” Carrollo says of the adoption process. “And, you know, they can’t count.”
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