{"id":580829,"date":"2026-04-13T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580829\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:33:07","slug":"vermont-fish-and-wildlife-reminds-residents-to-be-bear-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580829\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Fish and Wildlife reminds residents to be bear aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Fish and Wildlife is reminding residents it\u2019s the time of year to be bear aware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency said it is already getting reports that bears are waking up. Males are active on the landscape now and will soon be followed by females and in some cases cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wardens said if you see a bear in your yard, it\u2019s probably there for a reason, whether it\u2019s getting into the neighbor\u2019s trash and passing through your yard or getting into your trash or bird feeders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why that bear is coming close to people because bears don\u2019t typically like to be around people. And the reason why they come to your yard is for food,\u201d said Warden Abigail Serra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you have a nuisance bear that won\u2019t leave, Fish and Wildlife said to make noises to keep it away and contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Fish and Wildlife is reminding residents it\u2019s the time of year to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[254690,254693,3,254692,79,27076,254689,254691,34752,201],"class_list":["post-580829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear-awareness","tag-bear-safety-vermont","tag-news","tag-nuisance-bears","tag-science","tag-vermont","tag-vermont-bears","tag-vermont-fish-and-wildlife","tag-wcax","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580829","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=580829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}