{"id":172695,"date":"2025-09-21T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172695\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:25:06","slug":"black-bear-relocated-after-wandering-through-moab-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172695\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bear relocated after wandering through Moab neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black bear wandering through the city of Moab, Utah has been relocated. | City of Moab<\/p>\n<p>MOAB, Utah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/southern-utah\/black-bear-moab\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC4<\/a>) \u2014 A black bear has been safely relocated after it was found wandering through a Moab neighborhood early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Moab City Police Department, a black bear was spotted around 2:15 a.m. on Thursday in the 300 block of McGill Boulevard. A Grand County deputy responded and spotted the bear behind Helen M. Knight Elementary before it entered a backyard of a home on North Cliffview Drive.<\/p>\n<p>After several hours, the bear was located again by a resident on Chinle Avenue around 9:30 p.m. The Utah Department of Natural Resources responded from Monticello and were able to sedate the female bear in a tree, causing her to fall into an adjacent yard.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists with Utah DNR estimated the bear to be around nine years old. The bear was safely released on Friday in the Abajo Mountains.<\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black bear wandering through the city of Moab, Utah has been relocated. | City of Moab MOAB,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-172695","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\/172695","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=172695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}