cubs
New bear cub brought to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 8:58am
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care has taken in a new bear cub, reports Tom Millham, founder. The cub came from the Humboldt area in northwest California, "because its mom was found dead." The cub was transported by LTWC Volunteer Linda McKenzie and her husband, Lonny.
Six yearling bears nursed at Lake Tahoe are returned back to Mother Nature
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 8:09am
Rehabilitated through Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, a total of six orphaned bear cubs have been returned to the wild this spring, ending the California Department of Fish and Game's 2012 yearling bear release program.
The cubs were found in various locations around the state in the summer months of 2011 and were rehabilitated at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care prior to being judged ready to return to the wild. The state program is ongoing and will continue as new cubs come into the facility.
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care eyes Echo Creek Ranch for relocation
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 1:43am
A 16-acre parcel near where Highways 89 and 50 meet is being scoped as a possible and permanent relocation site for Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care.
The property, known as Echo Creek Ranch, sits in an estate and trust by the late Alex Graf and once had a value of about $7 million during the height of the real estate boom.
2 orphaned bear cubs returned to wild near Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 9:08amRENO, Nev. (AP) - A pair of black bears orphaned as cubs last summer in the foothills near Reno have been returned to the wild atop the Sierra Nevada.State wildlife officials shot their mother in J...
Ready for the wild: Tahoe bear cubs rehabilitated and set free
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 1:29am
Three bear cubs, nursed back to health by Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, Inc., were released into the wild this week.
The bears, each close to a year old, were brought to the South Lake Tahoe facility last summer where they were found malnourished and without mothers.
The California Department of Fish and Game released one of the cubs, a female, north of Truckee on Tuesday and two were taken to Alpine County on Wednesday. The cubs were put into winter dens made by Fish and Game biologists.
Orphaned bear cubs returned to Calif. mountains
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 11:23amFRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Two orphaned bear cubs have been released in the California mountains nearly five months after a poacher killed their mother.Campers found the two California black bear cubs i...
