Rangers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park safely rescued a young black bear using a backhoe and teamwork after it became trapped by onlookers.<\/p>\n
Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park \u2014 Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers said they rescued a young black bear using some unconventional methods.<\/p>\n
It happened back in October on Laurel Creek Road. GSMNP leaders said a young black bear, who was likely startled while trying to cross the road, climbed up a steep bank to escape traffic. They said visitors started to stop and watch, trapping the bear and creating a dangerous situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GSMNP officials said they normally let wildlife navigate their environment without interfering, but the situation called for them to help. A team of law enforcement, wildlife biologists, preventive search and rescue rangers and maintenance crews stepped into action.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Law enforcement managed traffic, biologists tranquilized the bear and rangers rappelled down the cliff to guide the bear into a backhoe bucket. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
GSMNP staff said the bear was rescued without injury.<\/p>\n
“We’re proud of the creative, compassionate rangers that made this possible,” GSMNP said in a post on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park safely rescued a young black bear using a backhoe and teamwork…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-298163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}