{"id":589715,"date":"2026-04-17T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:13:09","slug":"bear-cub-rescued-after-being-found-alone-on-oneida-county-road-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589715\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Cub Rescued After Being Found Alone on Oneida County Road | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bear Cub Blocks Road in Oneida County\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e17f3fddf46.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Provided Photo<\/p>\n<p>TABERG, N.Y. &#8212; A bear cub briefly stopped traffic on West Ava Road in Oneida County.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police shared that Sergeant Station Commander Richard Kosakowski, assigned to Troop D, was alerted by a passerby to the cub in the Taberg roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Kosakowski contacted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which responded.<\/p>\n<p>The cub, weighing 2.7 pounds, is presently being cared for by the Woodhaven Wildlife Center in Chadwicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers searched the area in which the cub was found and allowed it to &#8220;cry&#8221; for a while in hopes that the bear&#8217;s mother would come back.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, she did not return.<\/p>\n<p>NYSP reminded drivers to slow down and stay alert for unexpected animals crossing the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided Photo TABERG, N.Y. &#8212; A bear cub briefly stopped traffic on West Ava Road in Oneida County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[81661,86039,107885,79,22802,257601,257602,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-589715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bear-cub","9":"tag-new-york-state-police","10":"tag-oneida-county","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-state-police","13":"tag-taberg","14":"tag-west-ava-road","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589715","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=589715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}