Los Angeles Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIn the foothills of bear country, it\u2019s important to close crawl spaces with bear-proof material in advance of winter months to discourage bears from denning and damaging property,\u201d the CDFW wrote on social media after that incident.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s not cold enough in Southern California for bears to hibernate, they will engage in a behavior called \u201cdenning,\u201d where they take long naps but may emerge periodically to eat.<\/p>\n
Since Tuesday, Johnson\u2019s bear has come and gone from his house several times. He can hear \u201call kinds of clunking and booming\u201d under the floorboards, and the bear rummaged through his trash cans on Sunday evening before retreating back to its chosen home.<\/p>\n
It has dark brown fur with a tan snoot and two tan marks on its chest. Other neighbors have seen the same bear around the area before and call it Barry, although Johnson said he doesn\u2019t know if the bear is male or female.<\/p>\n
Johnson reached out to local law enforcement regarding the bear after it growled at him when he was changing his camera batteries. They told him to call state officials, but he was eventually directed to fill a form out online reporting a bear sighting. He checked a box for \u201cProperty Damage\u201d and wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s living under my house.\u201d <\/p>\n
So far, he hasn\u2019t gotten a response.<\/p>\n
CDFW spokesperson Cort Klopping said Monday afternoon that field experts were working on two other bear incidents in the region and would hopefully be able to respond to Johnson \u201csoon.\u201d He confirmed that the yellow tag on the bear\u2019s ear indicated it was the state agency\u2019s jurisdiction and not federal.<\/p>\n
Bears in crawl spaces are a common occurrence this time of year, with teams potentially responding to five of these incidents in a week, Klopping said.<\/p>\n
If the bear isn\u2019t removed soon, Johnson mused, he might have to take matters into his own hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan is, I\u2019m going to buy a bunch of dinner rolls, and line them down the street up to the hole, and have some sandbags ready,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWhen he comes down the street to get the dinner rolls, throw sandbags in there and cover it with pepper spray, and just hope he stays away.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ken Johnson, 63, just got a new roommate last week \u2014 a black bear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2113,11604,7,9,8,20,5881,27443,18,44431,33117,44623,13,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-77504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-climate","14":"tag-climate-and-environment","15":"tag-cort-klopping","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-ken-johnson","18":"tag-local-news-for-apple","19":"tag-oddities","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}