Some bears may not den at all if they continue to find sufficient food. Around homes, bears may scavenge for food in garbage containers and bird feeders and for pet and livestock food left outside. They can damage buildings and vehicles while searching for human-provided food.
Bears can also damage crops especially corn and beehives. They damage trees by clawing bark and breaking branches, and will feed from fruit trees. It is illegal to possess living, wild animals in Vermont. A furbearing animal can only be possessed when moving the animal to a more appropriate place for dispatch.
More information. In Vermont, WildlifeHelp. Skip to main content. I am in Vermont change state. Solutions for black bear problems How to protect pets from bear attack Explore this solution. How to deal with a bear in my house Explore this solution.
How to frighten a bear to make it go away Explore this solution. Although it is extremely rare for a black bear to attack a human, bears are wild animals and should never be approached. When there is a bear physically present, it is best to bring children and pets inside. However, reports of bear sightings in the area should not deter people from enjoying time outdoors or from allowing children to play outside.
Although the large number of reports may make us believe that Vermont is being overrun with problem bears a relatively small number of bears are responsible for most of the reports. A single bear can travel more than five miles in a night and along the way visit dozens of backyards in a relatively short period of time.
Translation Disclaimer. Menu Vermont Official State Website. Here are a few tips to help keep bears wild: Keep trash inside until the morning of garbage pickup.
Alternatively, you can replace your garbage or dumpster with a bear-proof receptacle. Do you point to more bears or people just being home and seeing more? Bear behavior was different because it was such a poor food year for them.
If you were a berry picker or went out and got wild apples, you would probably have a tough time of finding them too. The bears certainly did, so they were pretty desperate last year for food. Although there were more people home, there were more people hoarding food, more food spoiling, more people attempting to compost in their back yard.
We had a lot of things going on, including more people from down country taking up residence because of COVID in Vermont, and they were inexperienced about living around bears.
More sightings in the woods too. The state says there was a record bears harvested this past hunting season. It would probably have to be enforced to shorten the hunting season or something like that, but we got lots of bears out there.
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