Post by tonya on Mar 4, 2006 20:09:17 GMT -5
All N20 wanted was to party! She would have cleaned up after the bikers. ;D
March 04, 2006
Beachside bear caught, relocated
DAYTONA BEACH -- All she needed was a pair of chaps and she might have fit right in, but instead a Florida black bear was hauled back to the Ocala National Forest on Friday before she could mingle with the crowd on Main Street.
She was almost there, just a few blocks away, when she was treed by dogs about 10:30 Thursday night at Oleander Avenue and Jessamine Boulevard.
The bear had been wandering the coast between St. Augustine and Flagler Beach for a month, swimming back and forth across the Intracoastal Waterway, with stops in Palm Coast and Beverly Beach, authorities said. She was spotted by Ormond Beach police officers early Thursday and again Thursday night.
After getting the call she had been spotted again, wildlife biologist Mike Orlando was about a minute behind the bear when she was treed in Daytona Beach, said Joy Hill, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
State wildlife officials normally encourage Floridians to ignore treed bears until they go away, but they were a little worried about this bear, N20, being so close to the congested center of Bike Week festivities. That's why they made a "rare" decision to shoot a tranquilizing dart at the bear and take her back to the Ocala National Forest, Hill said.
The bear fell about 5 feet from an oak tree but wasn't injured, Hill said. Orlando stayed with the bear in the forest until about 4 a.m. Friday to make sure she was up and moving.
This wasn't the first time she had been captured and moved from a residential area. Last July, she was taken from Bonita Springs, where she had been raiding garbage cans, to the Ocala National Forest. But she left there several weeks ago.
Not exactly a testament to the slimming benefits of walking and swimming, she had gained 100 pounds. She had gained so much weight Orlando had to loosen her radio-tracking collar.
dinah.pulver@news-jrnl.com
Good covergae Dinah.
Tonya
March 04, 2006
Beachside bear caught, relocated
DAYTONA BEACH -- All she needed was a pair of chaps and she might have fit right in, but instead a Florida black bear was hauled back to the Ocala National Forest on Friday before she could mingle with the crowd on Main Street.
She was almost there, just a few blocks away, when she was treed by dogs about 10:30 Thursday night at Oleander Avenue and Jessamine Boulevard.
The bear had been wandering the coast between St. Augustine and Flagler Beach for a month, swimming back and forth across the Intracoastal Waterway, with stops in Palm Coast and Beverly Beach, authorities said. She was spotted by Ormond Beach police officers early Thursday and again Thursday night.
After getting the call she had been spotted again, wildlife biologist Mike Orlando was about a minute behind the bear when she was treed in Daytona Beach, said Joy Hill, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
State wildlife officials normally encourage Floridians to ignore treed bears until they go away, but they were a little worried about this bear, N20, being so close to the congested center of Bike Week festivities. That's why they made a "rare" decision to shoot a tranquilizing dart at the bear and take her back to the Ocala National Forest, Hill said.
The bear fell about 5 feet from an oak tree but wasn't injured, Hill said. Orlando stayed with the bear in the forest until about 4 a.m. Friday to make sure she was up and moving.
This wasn't the first time she had been captured and moved from a residential area. Last July, she was taken from Bonita Springs, where she had been raiding garbage cans, to the Ocala National Forest. But she left there several weeks ago.
Not exactly a testament to the slimming benefits of walking and swimming, she had gained 100 pounds. She had gained so much weight Orlando had to loosen her radio-tracking collar.
dinah.pulver@news-jrnl.com
Good covergae Dinah.
Tonya
