Dead bear found in Meyers neighborhood

A dead bear was found in Meyers on Dec. 2. The cause of death is unknown.

The 2- or 3-year-old cub was not moving behind the house where it was located.

“We did not notice anything that resembled foul play. No blood, no gunshot wounds that we could see, just dead,” Tom Millham with Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care told Lake Tahoe News. LTWC is holding the bear until state officials retrieve it.

A game warden with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to arrive on the South Shore on Thursday. An official with the agency could not be reached late Dec. 2.

It will be up to the warden to decide what to do with the bear’s body and determine how the animal died.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report