{"id":71371,"date":"2025-08-15T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:28:08","slug":"alberta-parks-issues-bear-warning-some-trails-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71371\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Parks issues bear warning, some trails closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Buffaloberries to us might be a little bit sour, but the bears really like them, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re out there foraging at this time,&#8221; Loewen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And with an extremely high number of buffaloberries out there, then we know that the bears will be out there feeding on them, and there will be just a greater opportunity for people to interact with the bear, come into contact with the bear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 17 Alberta Parks bear advisories in place, the latest warning is different from the 16 others, as it encompasses all of Kananaskis rather than focusing on a specific area where bears have been seen or encountered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normally when we have issues with bears, we know it&#8217;s a particular bear in a particular area, so we just [implement] warnings for that area,&#8221; Loewen said. &#8220;But since the buffaloberry issue is widespread, because they&#8217;re growing everywhere across Kananaskis, we wanted to make sure that we provided a warning across the whole area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/nature\/animals\/video-shows-black-bear-chasing-british-columbia-mountain-bikers-for-over-one-kilometre\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black bear chases mountain bikers down trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bear warning will likely remain in place for 10 to 14 days, Loewen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll probably leave this on until the berries fall from the bushes,&#8221; he said, adding that &#8220;they&#8217;re starting to fall already.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Buffaloberries to us might be a little bit sour, but the bears really like them, and that&#8217;s why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[901,2837,49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-71371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71371","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=71371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}