Sad bear story

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The sow had to be put down after a period of being fed by the neighbors. Each year there are lots of bear reports in this area, OK to watch but never provide a source of food.

From WMUR web site today.

Bear Cub Rescued From Tree After Mother Killed
Officials Say Cub Will Be Returned To Wild

POSTED: 10:54 am EDT June 4, 2010

HINSDALE, N.H. -- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials said a 6-month-old bear cub that spent two days in a tree after its mother was killed is being trained to live in the wild on its own.

Fish and Game Capt. Kevin Jordan said the female cub was lured out of the Hinsdale tree Thursday with doughnuts.

The cub's mother had been hanging around a Hinsdale neighborhood since it came out of hibernation last winter.

Jordan told the New Hampshire Union Leader the bear stayed because people were feeding it. One neighbor was giving it peanut butter sandwiches. The mother bear had to be shot earlier this week after it started raising havoc on a back porch.

The 20-pound cub was turned over to a bear rehabilitator in Lyme.