Cub killed for forays into Sand Harbor
Submitted by paula on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 7:18pm
Nevada Department of Wildlife officials killed a two-year-old bear after it made repeated forays into the Sand Harbor area of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park.
According to department spokesman Chris Healy the bear displayed troubling behavior that prompted officials to capture and euthanize it.
“It is a tough situation,” Healy said. “Outwardly it looked healthy but the behavior was troubling.”
According to NDOW, the bear entered the parking area at Sand Harbor late Thursday morning. It raided a cooler that was in the back of an open-top Jeep.
Breaking into the cooler wasn’t the most troubling behavior, however, Healy said.
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