Is California's bear population increasing? Here's what we learned

We’ve seen the videos, bears running across ski slopes and hiding under decks in the Sierra. The animals didn’t just get social media attention, they also got the states.
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[@AnandaAtHome]

This is a human problem, not a bear issue.

[@mrtahoe]

Facts of these horrible tourist and rich folk would go back to the bay we wouldn’t have all the crime trash drugs gangs crime! Go back to the bay and don’t come back.

[@frankmacleod2565]

What's the problem?

[@fatimalomibao6148]

There are more bears sightings because they are losing their natural habitats to humans.

[@DangDuctri-ky8vg]

AGREE,👍👍👍

[@frankmacleod2565]

Not up north here. The bear population is growing

[@MrJuvefrank]

Better than the average bear.

[@bang.bang.ninergang]

Let them thrive.. they have as much right to be here as we do!

[@frankmacleod2565]

Well, to a degree. Grizzlies have a right to be here too but you don't want to share a room with one

[@mrtahoe]

Only thing we learned is go back to the Bay Area!

[@vicpsyops4095]

I thought there were plenty of bears in California that men over there identified as?

[@frankmacleod2565]

There's definitely more bears in the north end of the state in the last decade or so.

[@Nobodyspecial5150]

They keep raising the amount of bears allowed to be harvested by hunters every year in CA and the population still keeps going up????

[@boomer6942]

Bears are at there highest level they estimate 85,000 bears. In the California Bear plan.

[@Darkbluedevil]

Fantastic ,more bears!

[@HeatherCampbell-kc7fx]

More bears, less people!!

[@judithmccrea2601]

Or maybe their habitat has decreased due to the fires and thus more concentrated? If you weren’t born in California maybe you should leave… more room for the bears.

[@frankmacleod2565]

Definitely more bears in north California than a decade ago

[@mrtahoe]

The bear league is not friends with the locals or bears… it’s all a sham just like keep Tahoe blue. Change my mind!

[@judithmccrea2601]

You can always go back where you came from…since you hate it here, clearly.

[@johnnybbgunner2136]

Does a bear 🐻 go 💩in the woods?🤡🇺🇸

[@jimpowers2047]

Why are they not hibernating?