Bear forces Incline school to be on lockdown
By Associated Press
A black bear that wandered onto a Lake Tahoe high school campus and prompted a precautionary lockdown for two hours today is the same one that was captured with her cub in Carson City three days ago and released in the mountains 30 miles away.
The lockdown at Incline High School was lifted shortly after 11am Sept. 16 when state wildlife officials shot the mother bear with a tranquilizer dart after she climbed a tree outside the school on the lake’s north shore.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy says they intend to place the bear in a two-chamber trap baited with food in hopes of luring the cub back to its mother.
Healy says the bears won’t be killed because they’ve not posed any threat to anyone. He says wildlife biologists hope to release both of them to the wild again in the next day or so.
Big deal, it is called living in the wilderness, there is the wildness then we came along, end of story
He just wanted to play foot ball,
NDOW is trap/kill happy. Talk about a serious over reaction to an easily remedied situation! Carl Lackey is completely out of control and operates by the seat of his pants with no real operational plan or standards in place. And they keep little or no documentation on each trapping, release, or depredation other than blood draw and tagging. And the vast majority of bears he actually releases, as opposed to killing, he releases in the Nevada Bear Hunt zones, by his own inadvertent admissions now and again. And I find it interesting that many of those he kills are far too small to be considered trophys to hunters. This man doesn’t even posses a degree in biology, so how exactly is he the NDOW State Biologist? As far as I know being a sustainability major in college does not qualify him in any way, shape, or form to hold that title! People need to start calling him out on the carpet and hold him and NDOW to a higher standard of professionalism, which seems to be set to a very low bar within NDOW.
Hoping to release them in a couple days? Why wait? They are already tattooed, tagged, chipped… They escaped the hunt zone they were dropped in last week. Leave them be!
We choose to live in the woods. The wildlife isn’t the problem. Us humans create a problem where there was none before we moved in & changed the environment. Get over it – the animals were here first.