{"id":659237,"date":"2026-05-22T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:45:08","slug":"bear-captured-near-west-reno-trailer-park-released-into-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659237\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear captured near west Reno trailer park released into wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2-year-old female bear <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/bear-spotted-at-4th-and-keystone-public-urged-to-avoid-the-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered in west Reno on Thursday<\/a> was safely released back into the wild in the hills above Washoe Valley on Friday morning, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW).<\/p>\n<p>The bear had climbed into a tree near a trailer park on May 21, where NDOW biologists and game wardens monitored the situation and worked to safely guide it down. After several hours the animal came down from the tree on its own and entered a culvert trap without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say NDOW biologists and game wardens assisted with the release using Karelian Bear Dogs, a non-lethal wildlife management tool used to help reinforce a bear\u2019s natural fear of people and urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>The bear was not injured during the incident and no people were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>NDOW continues to remind residents to help prevent bears from becoming food-conditioned by securing attractants such as trash, bird seed and pet food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2-year-old female bear discovered in west Reno on Thursday was safely released back into the wild in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-659237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659237","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=659237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}