{"id":1592,"date":"2007-07-30T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T23:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2023-07-30T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T19:25:49","slug":"wandering-bear-caught-in-ventura-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2007\/07\/30\/wandering-bear-caught-in-ventura-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering bear caught in Ventura neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storysubhead\"><strong>The 200-pound animal was subdued with tranquilizers and released in Los Padres National Forest.<\/strong><span id=\"v6aeba10e2\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"storysubhead\">\n<p>Source of this article &#8211; Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2007<\/p>\n<p>A 200-pound black bear that wandered into a neighborhood near downtown Ventura this week was safely subdued and returned to the Los Padres National Forest, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>State game wardens cornered the bear Thursday afternoon in a backyard in the 1300 block of Brodiea Avenue and shot it with five tranquilizer darts, Lt. Chris Long of the state Department of Fish and Game said.<\/p>\n<p>It took about 90 minutes to catch the bear, which scurried up several trees and then a utility pole even after it had several darts in it. After climbing yet another tree, the dazed bear finally fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The drug used in the dart gun incapacitates the animal&#8217;s central nervous system, leaving the bear awake but unable to move.<\/p>\n<p>The bear was taken about 15 miles into the forest, given antibiotics and minor medical treatment, then released.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a popular misconception that it is a threatened species, the California black bear population is estimated at 25,000 to 35,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bears are increasing exponentially; they&#8217;re all over the place,&#8221; Long said. &#8220;In the last few years, we&#8217;ve had bears spotted near Thousand Oaks, Agoura, Newbury Park and spots in the Santa Monica Mountains where you never saw them in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 200-pound animal was subdued with tranquilizers and released in Los Padres National Forest. Source of this article &#8211; Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2007 A 200-pound black bear that wandered into a neighborhood near downtown Ventura this week was safely subdued and returned to the Los Padres National Forest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bears","category-ventura-county","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}