In So Cal in the spring -the bears come out

Look out ! They're everywhere! I saw one yesterday shambling along on a hillside near my home in Ventura County. LA Times had a great article today. Pics from there.

"Bears are expanding into portions of California that were formerly grizzly habitat, in particular the Coast Range mountains from Mendocino into Santa Barbara and Southern California," Updike said. "We're seeing bears in places where we have not seen bears before."

Though sightings are increasingly common in the foothill communities of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains, no town in Los Angeles County has more ursine episodes than Monrovia. It occupies only 12 square miles, about 40% of it in the mountains.

"All the new buildings are against the foothills in areas where bears live," said Tom Wright, a patrol sergeant for the Monrovia Police Department. During spring and summer, when bears are most active, he said, police respond to complaints about bears every day.

"They go through trash and eat avocados off trees," Wright said.

:sarcasm:

Bears aren't "expanding" into areas.. They are desperately trying to survive in areas that get smaller and more chopped up every year..

Imagine a Momma bear going into hibernation and awakening with cubs to the sound of bulldozers in HER yard..

:D

And could they add some more chlorine tabs once in a while?
I mean come on their not the only ones to use the hot tub

wait until someone leaves the fixin's for guacamole out.
THEN there will be a run on avocados.

:grr: