{"id":648,"date":"2006-05-23T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=648"},"modified":"2023-07-30T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T19:26:36","slug":"bear-spotted-in-the-conejo-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2006\/05\/23\/bear-spotted-in-the-conejo-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted in the Conejo Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search has been called off for a bear seen near the Westlake High School campus, officials said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/News\/Sources\/VenturaCountyStar.htm\">Source of this article<\/a> &#8211; Ventura County Star, May 23, 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>By staff reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 10:30 a.m. today, a bear was sighted near Via Colinas in Thousand Oaks; nearly an hour later the animal was spotted close to the high school parking lot, said Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Capt. Bruce Watlington. Deputies and park rangers arrived, but called off the search shortly after noon when the bear fled into dense brush area and could not be spotted, Watlington said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, several deputies, park rangers and curious residents descended near the same area searching for a bear. A few days later, that bear was caught near Hillcrest Drive and was taken to the Los Padres National Forest to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s search follows the fourth consecutive day of bear sightings in the Thousand Oaks and Oak Park area, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Reported sightings were early Monday morning close to Kanan Road and Conifer Street; Sunday afternoon on Oak Hills Drive; and Saturday evening on Smoketree Avenue, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if it is the same bear roaming the area, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search has been called off for a bear seen near the Westlake High School campus, officials said today. Source of this article &#8211; Ventura County Star, May 23, 2006 By staff reports Shortly before 10:30 a.m. today, a bear was sighted near Via Colinas in Thousand Oaks; nearly an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bears","category-conejo-valley","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}