How neighborhoods can work to address rise in black bear encounters

UCLA’s famed campus Bruin statue doesn’t have it all that different from his living, breathing cousins some 30 miles away in the San Gabriel Mountain communities. When encountered on Bruin Walk, people will instinctively whip out their phones to snap a picture of the imposing bronze bear, teeth bared and trapezius muscle flexed. In the not-so-distant future, however, this Bruin might not be the only bear in the area—though hopefully he’ll remain the only one prompting bear selfies with prospective students on campus tours.

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