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A three-year-old male black bear was seen scaling a fence and entering the Government of Yukon vehicle and storage compound earlier this week. A colleague passed these photos on to me yesterday. (Click for larger views.)
He looks kind of skinny. He must have been desperate for food to climb that fence.
A conservation officer was called in and subdued the ursine intruder with a tranquilliser gun.
At great expense to the taxpayers, the bear has been (or soon will be) taken back to the wild, probably somewhere north of Dawson, and released.
It is not uncommon to sight bears within Whitehorse city limits, but this fellow was unusually close to the downtown area. The compound where he was apprehended is only a few yards from the local Wal-Mart, where the parking lot is already crammed with tourists' RVs and campers. I hate to think of the panic and damage that could have resulted if he had been spotted venturing through there.
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