{"id":34985,"date":"2025-10-06T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34985"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:34:06","slug":"black-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34985","title":{"rendered":"Black bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my wanderings, I have been keeping an eye open for bears &#8212; particularly grizzlies. I have seen no grizzlies, and only a few black bears (the nicest was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34885\">standing with a fish<\/a>\u00a0taken a month ago). I suspect that the relative absence of bears at the valley bottom is a result of a good huckleberry crop somewhat higher in the mountains. Also, the abundance of food around Nelson has been an attractant. Indeed, this black bear was in that vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>A black bear staring out of the forest. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34987\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bear250904s2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In my wanderings, I have been keeping an eye open for bears &#8212; particularly grizzlies. I have seen no grizzlies, and only a few black bears (the nicest was standing with a fish\u00a0taken a month ago). I suspect that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34988,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions\/34988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}