{"id":5977,"date":"2020-04-03T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:19","slug":"living-with-black-bears-black-bears-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5977","title":{"rendered":"Living with Black Bears – Black Bears in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Black bears (Ursus americanus) are found throughout both the foothills and forests of Idaho. Between 20,000 and 30,000 black bears roam these wild lands. These bears share space with a human population that is expected to grow by more than 15 percent during the next 10 years. This means that human\/bear encounters will continue and likely increase.<\/p>\n

Every year, Idaho Fish and Game Department staff respond to dozens of calls from citizens reporting bears that have become become attracted to \u2014 and then accustomed to \u2014 human food sources such as garbage, bird seed, and pet food. Though the bears are just following their sensitive noses to high-calorie foods, being in constant contact with people can cause them to lose their natural wariness of humans. Bears intent on getting a good meal can cause harm to someone who gets in their way. For this reason, Fish and Game staff are regularly forced to euthanize some bears that have become too comfortable around people. That\u2019s treating the symptom, not the cause of the problem.
\nIdaho\u2019s mountain towns are a great place for humans, but why do bears like them so much?<\/p>\n

Bears spend approximately one-third of the year in their den, sleeping through winter. To prepare for this, they spend most of their time during summer and fall fattening up by consuming as many calories as possible.<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular belief, more than 90 percent of most black bear diets consist of vegetation: berries, nuts and plants. A bear\u2019s keen nose can smell foods up to five miles away!\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bear Country<\/a><\/strong>
\nHow To be Safe Around Bears<\/a><\/strong>
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Black bears (Ursus americanus) are found throughout both the foothills and forests of Idaho. Between 20,000 and 30,000 black bears roam these wild lands. These bears share space with a human population that is expected to grow by more than 15 percent during the next 10 years. This means that human\/bear encounters will continue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}