{"id":133881,"date":"2025-09-05T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133881\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:19:10","slug":"cal-fish-and-wildlife-investigating-alleged-shooting-death-of-a-mama-bear-and-cub-near-eureka-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133881\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Fish and Wildlife Investigating Alleged Shooting Death of a Mama Bear and Cub Near Eureka | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Ridgewood neighbor who witnessed the alleged bear killing made a sign to alert the public. | Submitted.<\/p>\n

WARNING: This post contains a photograph of a dead bear cub.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Residents along Ridgewood Drive, just south of Eureka, say one of their neighbors shot and killed a mama bear and her cub in the pre-dawn hours over Labor Day weekend, and state law enforcement officers are now investigating the alleged crime.<\/p>\n

Lt. Matthew Renner with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife told the Outpost this afternoon office personnel received a call reporting illegal bear poaching, and officers with the department have conducted interviews with witnesses and other neighborhood residents.<\/p>\n

One local resident, Lori Ball, emailed the Outpost\u00a0on Wednesday, saying, \u201cA mama\u00a0bear\u00a0and her baby were tragically shot and killed alongside a busy road within a populated neighborhood. This illegal act not only threatens our local wildlife but has caused distress in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another local resident, who asked to remain anonymous, sent us the photo below, showing the fatally injured bear cub.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Eureka resident Alison Brewer reported on Facebook<\/a> Tuesday evening that she\u2019d heard three gunshots around 4:30 a.m. a couple of days prior. Another commenter said the poacher hauled away the adult bear\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Lt. Renner said shooting a bear in a residential neighborhood is not legal unless you are defending your life or property.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Ridgewood neighbor who witnessed the alleged bear killing made a sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-133881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}