{"id":790688,"date":"2026-07-09T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:26:09","slug":"watch-for-moose-and-bears-on-nl-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790688\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for Moose \u2013 and Bears \u2013 on NL Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bear-in-terra-nova.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Watch for Moose - and Bears - on NL Highways\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Dalley had a close encounter with a bear crossing the highway in Terra Nova National Park (Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are accustomed to watching for moose on the province\u2019s highways, but one woman is warning about scanning for black bears as well. <\/p>\n<p>Colleen Dalley told VOCM Open Line with guest host Darrin Bent that a black bear ran across the road, cutting off her vehicle, near the golf course in Terra Nova National Park earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>She says she\u2019s never seen bears so plentiful as she has this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI frequent the highways quite a lot and have seen an increased number of black bears. He just came out of nowhere\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Dalley says it was a close call. <\/p>\n<p>She says the bear stopped briefly and she was forced to slam on her brakes, reminding her of the importance of not keeping too many things loose in her vehicle as it all shifted forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Colleen Dalley had a close encounter with a bear crossing the highway in Terra Nova National Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872,323],"class_list":["post-790688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790688","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=790688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}