If you have ever wondered what a black bear trap look like – this is one.
This trap is being set up at the Point Mall in Eastpoint to catch a black bear that has been visiting the commercial dumpster that serves the businesses at the mall (including Oyster Radio.)
If they manage to catch the bear, it will be relocated to the National Forest somewhere deep in the woods between Highway 65 and Highway 67.
Black bears can get all of the food they need from the woods, but they will go anywhere where food is easily available.
Garbage cans, pet food and dirty grills are some of their favorite spots.
State officials get about 170 calls a year from Franklin County about bears and about a quarter of the calls are about bears in residential garbage.
The primary response to those calls is to tell the person to secure their trash.
If that doesn’t work, then the bear is either captured and moved or if it a real nuisance, it is killed.
The state has killed about 62 bears in Franklin County in the past 10 years.
The problem is that removing or killing the bear does not solve the problem – because there is always another bear to take its place.
But securing trash does fix the problem, studies done in Florida have shown a 66 percent drop in bear related calls when household garbage is secured.
This trap is being set up at the Point Mall in Eastpoint to catch a black bear that has been visiting the commercial dumpster that serves the businesses at the mall (including Oyster Radio.)
If they manage to catch the bear, it will be relocated to the National Forest somewhere deep in the woods between Highway 65 and Highway 67.
Black bears can get all of the food they need from the woods, but they will go anywhere where food is easily available.
Garbage cans, pet food and dirty grills are some of their favorite spots.
State officials get about 170 calls a year from Franklin County about bears and about a quarter of the calls are about bears in residential garbage.
The primary response to those calls is to tell the person to secure their trash.
If that doesn’t work, then the bear is either captured and moved or if it a real nuisance, it is killed.
The state has killed about 62 bears in Franklin County in the past 10 years.
The problem is that removing or killing the bear does not solve the problem – because there is always another bear to take its place.
But securing trash does fix the problem, studies done in Florida have shown a 66 percent drop in bear related calls when household garbage is secured.
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